*) 



ALSOPHILA. 



AlSOPHILA CONTAMINANS. (Wall.) Aculeolate, frond bipinnate coriaceous glaucous beneath, pinnules oblong-lanceo- 

 late acuminate deeply pinnatifid, segments oblong falcate, the fertile ones narrower, rather obtuse crenulate, sori upon forked veins in 

 lines parallel with the costa and covering nearly the whole segment, capsules mixed with hairs. Hook. Sp. Fil. i 52 ; — A. Contaminans, 

 Wall. Cat in Index ; — Polypodium contaminans, Wall, in Herb. 1823. Cat. n. 320 ; — Chnoophora glauca, Blume, En. Fil. Jav. p. 

 243 j — Alsophila glauca, J. 8m. 



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



Hab. Sylhet, Penang, Java, Molucca, Luzon, South Camarines, Plriliipines, New Guinea, Birmah. 



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