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ASPIDIEjE. 

 CYRTOMIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 41.) 



CyRTOMIUM CADUCUM (Wall.) Caudex sub-erect stout, stipites a foot and more long, stramineous very paleaceous witli 

 black large lanceolate scales below with a brown edge above these are broader membranaceous lax brown ones, fronds coriaceous 1-1 J 

 foot long, broad-lanceolate acuminate pinnated (or sub-bi-pinnate,) pinnae numerous 3-5 inches long, J an inch to an inch wide, falcato- 

 lanceolate acuminated unequally so at the base, superior base truncated and dilated with a more or less distinct obtuse or acute auricle 

 acutely subaristato-serrated not unfrequently lobato-pinnatifid and in some inferior pinnae quite pinnated with obovate rather obtuse 

 pinnules, veins copious approximate erecto-patent pinnate free or with the veinlets more or less combined forming elongated areoles 

 generally including a long free veinlet and sometimes the whole frond is bi-pinnate and the veinlets are then always free, and the plant 

 has no very distant resemblauce to some forms of [Polystichum aculeatum, sori large scattered, involucres very conspicuous orbicular 

 peltate but sometimes with a small sinus.— H oo7c. Sp. Fil. iv 39.— Wall. Cat n. 381.— Hook, et, Grev. Ic. Fil. t, Hl.—MetUn. Aspid, 

 p t 35—Cyrtomium, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 77.— Moore Ind. Fil p. '276, (excluding the S\ American statio7i$).— Lastrea Hookeriaiia, 

 Fr. Tent, Pterid. p. 77. 



The specimen figured is from the Kkasya Hills, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Nepaul, Sikkim, Khasya, Assam, Bhooian, 



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