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ASPIDIEiE. 



IiASTREA APICIFLOEA (Hook.) Caudex short stout erect clothed above with subulate scales, stipites stout a span to a 

 foot and more long, scaly with appressed lanceolate scales at the base the rest and the stout very straight rachis clothed with numerous 

 close-pressed scales varying in shape from small-ovate to long-lanceolate, fronds 2-3-4 feet long, oblong or sub-oval lanceolate acuminate 

 coriaceo-membranaceous pinnate, pinnae numerous alternate horizontal subfalcate 5-6 inches long, often an inch broad from a broad sessile 

 base oblon* acuminate deeply even to the rachis pinnatifid (almost again pinnate), segments approximate parallelogram-oblong straight 

 obtuse or r°etuse angulato-dentate at the apex, veinlets numerous simple or forked, sori 5-6 only at the apex of the frond, involucres firm- 

 membranaceous reniform, coste very paleaceous with appressed subulate scales beneath.— HooL Sp. Fil. iv. 112.— Aspidium, Wall. 

 Cat. n. Zi5.—Metten. Aspid. p. 54. 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim, Himalaya, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Nepaul, Sikkim, Himalaya, (elevation 9,000.) 



PLATE No. XL. 



