ASPIDlEiE. 



TASTRE k PaRISHII (Hook.) Caudex creeping, stipes solitary lax soft slender glabrous and quite scaleless a little downy 

 at the summit fronds 4-6 inches long and as much broad pale-green pellucid succulent membranaceous when dry, pubescently hairy on 

 the cost*, pentangular-deltoid acuminate ternately tripinnate pinnatifid at the apex, primary pinn* oblong acuminate sub-opposite 

 deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, inferior ones pinnate at.the base and petioled, segments and pinnules \-\ of an inch long, strongly 

 serrated or acutely pinnatifid and all decurrent so as to form a winged rachis-basal pair a primary pinn* twice or thnce as large as the 

 rest and remote from them half-ovate acuminate, the lowest basal pinnae much longer than the rest and more compound, veinlets lax 

 distant twice or thrice forked, sori equidistant between the costule and the margin, involucre small rotundato-reniform one of the lobes 

 sometimes a little^elongated, rachis fusco-pubescent.— H ook Sp. Fil. iv. 131, 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein, (Rev. Parish.) 



Hab. Moulmein (shady moist places limestone rocks.) 



PLATE No. XLIII. 



