122 



PLEOPELTIS. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 57.) 



xLEOPELTIS DILATATA. (Wall). Caudex creeping (short?), paleaceous with ovate reticulated scales, stipites 1J 

 foot and more long, but strongly winged for its whole length by the decurrenfc base of the frond (not articulated on the caudex), 

 fronds ample 1 J-2 and 3 feet long, a foot and more wide, membranaceous light-green, glabrous oblongo-ovate pinnatifid to within 

 J-l inch of the rachis (less towards the base), segments 5-6 or 8 inches long (shorter towards the apex), f-1 rarely 2 inches 

 wide, oblongo-lanceolate acuminate entire suddenly decurrent, costules veniform forming large primary areoles which 

 extend two-thirds of the way to the margin and include the sori, these and the rest of the segments are occupied by lesser irregular 

 areoles including many free veinlets, their branches moderately divaricating, sori numerous, very small, often oval or more or less 

 elongated, compital on the secondary veins and veinlets. Hook Sp. Fil. v. 85. Wall. Cat. n. 295 ;— Drynaria acuminata ? Brack 

 Fil. U. S. JSxpl Exp., p. 47. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein — (Parish.) 



Hab. Nepal, Khasya, 4,000 6,000 feet, Malacca, Malay Peninsula, Moulmein, ascent of Mooleit, alt. 4,000 feet, Samoa 



Navigator's Islands. 



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