m 



HUMATA. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 4.) 



HlJMATA PARALLELA. (Wall.) Caudex creeping, paleaceous, fronds stipitate coriaceous ovato-lanceolate acuminate 

 deeply pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, segments close parallel, horizontally patent linear or linear-oblong subfalcate entire, the lowermost 

 pair sometimes with a solitary obtuse lobe at the base beneath, rarely more, involucres semiorbicular copious marginal, but all pointing 

 towards the apex of the segments in two close parallel lines (not pointing towards the margins), veins thickened sunk, Hook Sp. FiL 

 i. 153, Wall. Cat. n. 251 ;— Nephrodium Gaimardianum. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. £ot. t, 12. /. 1. 



The specimen figured is from Birmah — (Parish). 



Hab, Singapore, Birmah, Moluccas, Sandwich Islands, Luzon. 



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