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POLYPODIES. 

 GONIOPHLEBIUM. 



GONIOPHLEBIDM CUSPIDATUM. (Don, ?) " Caudex creeping, paleaceo-crinite," stipites 8-10 inches or more long, fuscous 

 glossy, frond 2-3 feet long, 1 foot wide, oblongo-ovate, glabrous firm-membranaceous pinnate, pinnaj shortly petiolate and articulated upon 

 the rachis, very patent opposite or alternate 6-8 inches long, | f inch wide from a graduaUy attenuated narrow-cuneate base, elongato- 

 lanceolate finely and long-acuminate serrated entire at the base and at the point, veins forming two or three series of areoles, including 

 a free veinlet, the costal series only soriferous, sori much nearer the costa than the margin, more or less sunk and forming more or less 

 distinct pustules on the back. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 32. Don, Fil, Nep. p. 6. f Bl. Fit, Jav. p. 175. /. 82, fatten. Polyp, p. 81 ;-Gonio- 

 phlebium, Pr, 



The specimen figured is from the Calcutta Herbarium (from Java.) 



Hab. Nepal, Java, 



PLATE No, LXXIX. 



