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ASPLENIE.E. 

 ASPLENIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 42.) 



ASPLENIUM GRIFFITH! AISTUM (Hook.) Caudex short thick sub-repent, fronds csespitose a span to nearly a foot high, 

 an inch in diameter sub-coriaceous pale-green with scattered small scales lanceolate shortly acuminate tapering gradually below into a 

 short winged stipes the margin rather deeply and coarsely crenato-serrate, the narrow acumen excepted, veins rather distant sub-horizon- 

 tally patent, sori distant short and rather broad two-thirds the length of the vein, involucres pale-coloured firm-membranaceous.~ J/w£. 

 Sp. FiL iii. 87.— Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 928, (or Cent, of Ferns t. 28.J—Metten. Asplen. p. 89. 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim below Darjeeling, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab, Assam, Sikkim, Mishmee. 



PLATE No, LVIII. 



