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PLEOCNEMIA, (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 28.) 



PlEOCNEMIA LEUZEANA. (Kze). Stipes 1| foot long, stout angular crinite at the base with very long subulate 

 flexuose silky scales, fronds large, ample submembranaceous tripinnate, primary pinnae a foot and more long, ovate acuminate petiolate, 

 pinnules 3-4 inches long, petiolulate from a broad subcordate base, oblong deeply (more than half way down) pinnatifid, ending in a 

 rather long entire acumen, fertile ones often contracted, segments oblong obtuse subfalcate entire crenato-serrate, the basal ones rarely sub- 

 lobato-pinnatifid, veins uniting and forming elongated areoles near the costa, in the sterile more or less united and reticulated at a distance 

 from the costa, sori copious, more or less remote from the margins, involucres orbiculari-cordate readily deciduous. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 

 6 1 ;_Aspidium Leuzeanum, Kze. Bol.Zeit. 14-474. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 94, t. 22, /. 8-9 ;— Pleocnemia, Pr. Tent. Pterid., p, 

 183. Epimel. Plant., p. 50. Rook. Gen. Fil. t. Id- A. (involucres omitted J and t. 97. J. Sm. in . Hook. Journ. Bot, ill, p. 411. Brock. 

 Fil U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 183 ;— Polypodium Gaud, in Freyc. Toy., p. 371. t. 6 ;— Pleocnemia Cumingrona (fertile portions of the frond 

 more contracted.) Pr. Epimel. Bot., p. 50 ;— Aspidium conjugatum, Bl, En. Fil. Jav.,p. 169 ; — Pleocnemia conjug., Pr. Epimel. Bot. 

 p. 259, and P. Javanica, p. 50. 



The specimen figured is from Birmah — (Parish.) 



Hab. Moluccas, Java, Ceram, Luzon, China, Mishmee and Assam, Sylhet, Birmah, Samoan, and Feejee Islands. 



PLATE No. CXXXIV. 



