PLATYLOME^]. 



PlAGIOGYBIA PYCNOPHYLLA (Kunze.) Caudex stout erect very woody and having many wiry roots, fronds fascicled, 

 stipites sub-quadrangular 2-furrowed in front (as is the rachis) at the base dilated fleshy triquetrous subulate bearing spongy glands, 

 fronds 1-2 and more feet long, sterile ones sub-chartaceous opaque brown when dry, oblong-ovate pinnated for its whole length except 

 that the small terminal ones are confluent into a lobed (or pinnatifid) and finely acuminate and serrated apex, pinnae horizontally patent 

 sessile or very nearly so numerous approximate narrow oblong-lanceolate very finely almost caudately acuminate, the base very obtuse 

 and truncate (neither dilated nor contracted) at the base beneath furnished with one or two prominent glands (sometimes wanting,) the 

 margin very minutely serrulate, the caudate apex strongly serrated, veins numerous closely placed simple and forked, fertile fronds 

 narrower pinnated, pinnae linear obtuse on very short petioles with a gland on the under side, involucre at first vaulted conspicuous 

 membranaceous brown at length forced back by the capsules.-7/oo/;. Sp. Fil. in. 2\.-Kze. in Bot. Zcit iv. p. U3.-Acrostich„m 

 triquetrum, Wall. Gat. n. 23, in part.— Stenochlsena ? pycnophylla, Pr. Epim. Bot.p. 165.— Lomaria scandens, " De V rim in Heri. 

 #&»."— L. callosa, Fee Gen. Fil. p. 70.— Plagiogyria adenopus.— T. Moore. Ms. 



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



Hab. Nepaul, Assam, Khasya, Bhotan, Sikkim, (7—15,000 feet), Java. 



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