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PLEOPELTIS, 



P.LEOPELTIS ZOSTERIFORMIS. (Wall.) Caudex short, fragile black, creeping apparently under ground or rather under 

 water, scaleless, stipites very slender, weak and filiform, J-l inch long aggregated, fronds 4-6 inches long less than J of an inch wide, car- 

 noso-membranaceous black when dry, linear vittarioid scarcely acuminate, subacute entire, gradually long-attenuated below into the thread- 

 like stipes, costa prominent beneath and scaly with blackish appressed somewhat fleshy small ovate scales, venation very distinct when 

 seen between the eye and the light, costules none, veins anastomosing, so as to form 2-3 series of large parallel but very irregular areoles 

 with no free veinlets. Sori in a single but irregular series between the costa and the margin, capsules lax. Hoolc. Sp. Fil v. 65. Wall 

 Cat. n. 280, Metten. Polyp, p. 86 (venation.) 



Nearly allied to P. tridactylon. Wall, at least to the Southern Indian form. 



The specimen figured is from Birmah — (Parish.) 



Hab. Birmah. 



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