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NEPHRODIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 29.) 



JNEPHRODIUAI FEROX. (Moore). Stipes robust, 2 and more feet long, crinite with coarse long subulate blackish 

 scales which more or less extend to the rachides, each bristle-like hair seated on a tubercle, fronds ample, probably several feet long, 

 very rigid and coriaceous, glossy, 2-3 feet broad, (judging by the length of the pinnae), glabrous pinnated, pinnae numerous, sessile approxi- 

 mate 1-1 1 foot long, often an inch broad, sessile from a truncated base, elongato-oblong falcate finely acuminated, regularly (about one- 

 third of the way down from the margin), pinnatifid with ovate acute pungent falcate segmen ts, costa and costules prominent beneath, 

 veinlets close, placed, elevated, six to eight pairs united and excurrent forming a pseudo-costule as distinct as the costule from which they 

 spring and which terminates at the sinus, sori in two rows close to the costule apparently forming a single brown transverse line or band 

 not prolonged into the segments. Hook Sp. Fil. iv. 77. Aspidiurn, Bl. En. Fil Jav. 9 p. 153 ;— Goniopteris aspera, J. Sm. in Hook 

 Journ. BoU iii., p. 396 ; —Poly podium asperum, Roxh. in Herb, Linn, (fide J. Sm.) ;— P, scabrum. Herb. Roxb. {fide Wall Cat 

 n. 2225.) 



The specimen figured is from the Calcutta Herbarium. 



Hab. Kumaon, Luzon, Java. 



PLATE No, CXXIX. 



