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SAGENIA. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 27.) 



►SaGEJSTIA SEMIBIPINNATA (Hook.) Caudex creeping scaly* stipites a span to a foot high striated with prominent angles, 

 reddish-brown as well as the rachis and costae, fronds 1-1| foot long, oblong-ovate in circumscription coriaceo-membranaceous, dark 

 brown when dry, glabrous sub-bi-tripinnate, pinnae 9-11 6-10 inches long, linear-lanceolate subflexuose acuminate tapering at the base, 

 quite entire, strongly costate, the lowest pair or two pairs long-petiolate tripartite or 3-foliate, sometimes again divided so as to be twice 

 trifoliate, primary veins sub-horizontal united by arches with the margin, the rest variously anastomosing, the areoles appendiculate, sori 

 (only young and imperfect) compital, involucre subreniform.-tfooA. Sp. Fil. iv. p. 59. Polypodium semi-bipinnatum.-TTatf. Cat. n. 

 388 and 2,229. 



The figure is taken from Sir W. Hooker's Sp. Fil, 



Hab. Penang, Borneo. 



PLATE No. CXXXVII. 



