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ASPIDIE^E. 

 NEPHRODIUM. (See "Ferns of Southern India;' p. 29.) 



NEPHEODIUM HIESUTUM (J. Sm.) Stipes and principal portion of the rachis villous with long soft close-pressed hairs, 

 fronds 3-4 feet long, ovato-lanceolate acuminate membranaceous, 1£ foot and more wide pinnated slightly hairy on the cost, above 

 glabrous and minutely glanduloso-resiniferous beneath, pinna very numerous approximate sessile 10 inches long, in the broadest part of 

 the frond and nearly an inch wide, linear oblong finely acuminate truncated at the base uniformly pinnatifid about half way down to the 

 costa, at the base beneath on the rachis is a large conspicuous disciform scale or gland chiefly present on the lower half of the frond, 

 segments ovato-oblong sub-falcate entire rather obtuse, one or two of the lowest pairs of veinlets combined, sori most copious on the 

 up°per half of the frond near the middle of all the veinlets, involucres glabrous. -Hook Sp. Fil. iv. 170.-/, Sm. in Rook Journ. Bot. 

 iii.p. 412, (name only.)—Pr. Epimel Bot. p. 48.— Aspid, Metten. Aspid. p. 107. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's " Species Filicum." 



Eab. Assam, Luzon, 



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