POLYPODIES. 



* Veins free. 

 NOTHOCHLSNA. R. Brown Prod. FL N. Roll 145. 

 (Cincinalis, Dcsvaux;— Argyroehosma, J. Sm. ;— Eriochosma, J. Smi /— Lepicosma, /. Srn. ; — ) 



Gen. char. Sori non-indusiate, small, rotundate, oligocarpous, contiguous, becoming laterally confluent into a narrow line or 



border, the receptacles terminal. Veins simple or forked from a central costa. Venules free- 

 Fronds pinnate, bi-tri-pinnate, the margins sometimes with a tendency to become revolute and indusioid. Rhizome short, erect. 



or decumbent. A genus with the habit of Cheilanthes, but without an indusium. (Moore.) 



1. NoTHOCHL.'ENA MaPiAMVE (Br.) Caudex a stout horizontal rhizome, densely paleaceous with soft silky ferruginous 

 finely pointed subulate scales, stipites generally stout purplish-black 3-6 inches long, aggregated setosely and densely hirsute, as well as 

 the rachis, fronds 4-5-10 inches long, 2-2J- inches wide, oblongo-lanceolate, carnoso-coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath densely clothed 

 with ferruginous oblongo-lanceolate imbricated scales bi-pinnate, primary pinna3 petiolate or sessile from a broadish obtuse base oblongo- 

 a cumulate, pinnules not numerous approximate sessile 2-3 lines long, very obtuse entire, upper ones confluent at the base (as are the 

 terminal primary pinnae) the edge scarcely reflexed, sori forming a broad border extending some way from the margin towards the costule, 

 much concealed by the paleaceous covering. — Hoolc. Sp. FiL v. 120 ; — Br. Prodr. Nov, Holl. p. 146; — Desv. Webb. FL Canar, iii. 

 p. 455; — N. subcordata, Desv. ;— Acrostichum Marantse, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1527; — Schk FiL t. 4; — Sw. Syn. FiL p. 14; — Willd. Sp* 

 PL v. p. 122 y—SibtL FL Gr. t. 964 ;— Ceterach, De Cand. ;— Gymnogramme, Metten. /— A. Canariense, Willi Sp. PL v. p. 121. 



The specimen figured is from near Simla. 



Hab. South of Europe, N. Africa and adjacent islands, Abyssinia, N. W. India, Kumaon, Kumalari, Simla, Sikkim, 



Bhotan. 



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