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NEPHEODIUM. 



JNePHRODIUM LINEATUM. (Presl.) Fronds ovate pinnate, veins on the upper side furnished with a few distant longish 

 hairs, on the under side slightly pubescent or subglabrous, pinnae alternate sessile or subpetiolate, 5 to 7 inches long by 1 to 1| broad, 

 shortly and rather suddenly acuminated, covered with minute glandular tubercles on both sides, sub-entire or more or less repando-serrate, 

 terminal pinnae often lobed towards the base, veins 8 or 10 pair all or all but the upper pair anastomosing and at their junction excurrent, 

 the excurrent veinlet being generally free in the lowest pair, but forming a continuous pseudo costule in all the others, sori small about the 

 middle of each vein, indusium apparent reniform. Nephrodium, Presl Epimel. BoL p. 48. Hook, Sp. Fil. iv. 74 ;— Aspidium obscurum ? 

 Bl, En. Fil. p. 150? 



The specimen figured is from Nynee Tal, (Mr. Oldham). It is almost exactly similar to Goniopteris urophylla. (PL CCXXXIX) 

 of the " Ferns of Southern India,'- except that it is always indusioid ; as Sir W. Hooker observes, it is very startling how some ferns 

 of the Aspidioid group exactly resemble others of the tribe Polypodia, the presence or absence of the indusium being almost the only 

 distinction, 



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