PLEUROGRAMME^. 

 GYMNOPTERIS. (See "Ferns of Southern India," p. 15.) 



GYMNOPTEMS TRICUSPIS (Hook.) Caudex creeping clothed with subulato-setaceous ferruginous scales stipites 1 foot 

 long, 1 I of the fertile frond ; sterile frond sub-coriaeeo-membranaceous sub-triangular-cordate 8-10 inches long, 1042 mches wjde a the 

 las including the spread of the lateral lobes, deeply trilobate, lateral lobes 5 inches or more long, 1| inch Wide — ^ 

 intermediate one 6 inches and more long, 2 inches wide, all of them oblongo-lanceolate acummate entire nmcostate, venation manifest, 

 SSfSZ indistinct connected by transverse irregnlar cnrved veins forming large areoles enclosing lesser «« J^*^ 

 free branched and divaricating veinlets ; fertile fronds much elongated but contracted tripartite nearly to the bas , egments scare ly 

 an inch wide linear strap-shaped acuminate, lateral ones 9-10 inches long erecto-sub-patent, intermediate one a foot and more long, son 

 universal except on the costa.— Hook. Sp. Fil, v. 272.— Anapausia, Moore, 



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



Hab, Sikkim— Himalaya, (hot valleys.) 



PLATE No. LIII. 



