ASPLENIEJE. 



ASPLENIUM ALTERNANS (Wall.) Caudex short descending copiously rooting squatnose with subulate scales as is the 

 very short (rarely an inch long,) stipes and base of the costa beneath, fronds caespitose about a span long, chartaceous very opaque pale- 

 rusty green beneath glabrous lanceolate scarcely acuminate attenuated below deeply and regularly pinnatifid throughout, lobes ovate ou 

 triangular-oblong with wide sinuses obtuse quite entire, veins sub-flabellato-dichotomous all free, sori copious on all the lobes in two rows 

 linear-oblong erecto-patent, the superior basal one parallel with the cosU.-Hooh. Sp. Fil. iii. M.-Wall. Cat. n, 221. -A. Dalhousue, 

 Hook. Ic. PI. t. 105. — Metten. Asplen. p. 147. 



The specimen figured is from Dalhousie, (Col. Dyas.) 



Hab. North West, Himalaya 6,000 feet, Knmaon, Simla, Chumbra hill— Abyssima, 



PLATE No. LIX. 



