116 



GYMNOPTERIS. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 15). 



GYMNOPTERIS MINUS (Metten). Small caudex creeping, thick as a sparrow's quill, scaly at the apex, stipites remote 

 slender 1-3 or in those of the fertile frond 4 inches long; Sterile fronds membranaceous, l|-2 inches long, oblong or broad— lanceolate 

 eostate tapering into a stipes 2§ inches long, costules indistinct, areoles with a free included clavate, veinlet smaller towards the margin j 

 fertile fronds 2 inches long, linear obtuse.-- -Hook Sp. Fil. v. 277. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 20 ;— Leptochilus, Fee. Acrosb p. 87, t> 

 47,/. 2. according to Ids figure (excl. Syn. J. Sm.) ;— Gymnopteris, Hook 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t. 78. 



The specimen figured is from Khasya— (Calcutta Herb.) 



Hab. Khasya near Churra, alt. 2,000 = 3,000 feet, Isle of Samar, Philippines. 



PLATE No. CXVL 



