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POLYPODIES, 



PLEOPELTIS, (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 5f.) 



x LEOPELTIS SUPERFICIALIS. (Bl.) Caudex very long creeping or scandent branched tortuose sparingly paleaceous with 

 subseariose short lanceolate scales, stipites more or less distant 2-6 inches long often curved upwards, fronds 6-12 inches long 1-2 inches 

 broad straight or subfalcate firm-membranaceous generally very opaque lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate entire glabrous finely acuminated, 

 below gradually attenuated and decurrent upon the stipes, no distinct costules, primary veins obliquely patent flexuose slender united by 

 transverse veins so as to form about four rows of large siibquadrate areoles, these are again divided into irregular lesser ones which 

 include free simple or branched veinlets, sori small arranged in two irregular series between the primary veins,— Hook Sp. Fil. v. 71.— BL 

 Fil Jav. p. 136, t. 56. /. 1 ;— P. hymenodes, Wall. Cat. n* 283 ; {not of Kze. according to Metten. Fil, Hort, Lips, p, 37. t, 25,/. 40-41, 

 Fee, Polyp, p. 115). 



The specimen figured is from the Khasya Hills, (Calcutta Herbarium.) 



Hab, Java, Chappadong mountains, Tenasserim, Khasya, Bhotan (alt. 3,000-6,000 feet), Hongkong, 



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