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PLEOPELTIS. 



PLEOPELTIS INCURVAT A. (Bl.) Caudex creeping, paleaceous, stipites scattered a span to a foot long of the sterile frond- 

 2 feet of the fertile glossy-brown, fronds firm-coriaceous glossy dimorphous ; sterile ones 6-10 inches long, 8 inches to 1 foot wide, hastato, 

 tripartite simply ovate or pinnatifid with 4-6 lateral lobes, lobe3 ovato -acuminate entire horizontal, terminal one very large, all thickened 

 at the margin, castules distinct but immersed, venation internal and very indistinct ; fertile fronds very long, stipitate 10 inches to a foot 

 long, nearly as much wide, very broad, ovate deeply pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, below subpinnate, segments 5-15-4-8 inches long, very 

 remote linear and acuminate decurrent at the base, sori large, copious oval sunk into a very deep cavity which forms a circular elevated 

 truncated tubercle on the opposite side, occupying the space between the costa and the margin in a single series. Hook, Sp, FiL v. 77. Bl % 

 Fil. Jav.,p. 151., t 65. Metten. Polyp., p. 106, t. 1,/. 30 (venation.) * 



The specimen figured is from the Calcutta Herbarium, 



Hab. Mount Ophir, Malacca, Java. 



PLATE No. CXXIV. 



