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ALSOPHILE^. 

 ALSOPHILA. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p, 19.) 



AlSOPHILA COMOSA. (Wall.) Unarmed, stipes densely clothed with long chaffy pale brown deciduous scales, rachis 

 strigose or almost setose above, fronds bipinnate, pinnse united towards the apex, so as to be the there pinnatifid, pinnules sessile or nearly 

 so oblong-lanceolate moderately acuminated submembranaceous pinnatifid about two-thirds of the way down, segments ovate slightly 

 falcate obtuse, veins generally forked, bullate scales none, receptacles small slightly elevated. Hook 8p. Fil I 53 )— A, Comosa, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 319. 



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

 Hab. Khasya Hills, Sincapore, Java, 



PLATE No. LXXXIV. 



