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-A- +~ <& / NEPHRODITJM. 



•NePHRODIUM fiffiSOPiUM . (Thw.) Caudex short, fronds glabrous or sub-glabrous lanceolate acuminate pinnate, pinnae 

 numerous, linear acuminate 5-10 inch long, \ to 1 inch broad, sub-sessile pinnatifid, generally about \ way down to the rachis, segments 

 truncated, unconspicuously toothed at the apex, veinlets 6-8 pair, the lower pair always and generally the 2 lower anastomosing, sori one 

 to each veinlet a little below the middle. Thw. En., p. 391. 



Mr. Thwaites, to whom I am indebted for the specimen of this fern, informs me that he considers it quite distinct from the Nep. 

 abruptum (Presl.), to which species Sir W. Hooker is inclined to refer it. All my specimens of abruptum have the pinnce much less 

 divided, and 3 to 6 (never less than 3) pair of veinlets anastomose, the segments of the pinnae are besides very different in shape. Mr. 

 Thwaites has had both species under cultivation. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



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