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CHEILANTHE& (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 63.) 



ChEILANTHES SUBVILLOSA. (Hook.) Stipes shining brown slightly scaly, frond broad-lanceolate or ovate pinnate, 

 thin sub-membranaceous glabrous above, soft villous about the rachises beneath, pinnae all obtuse, upper ones lanceolate, the rest broad 

 deltoid-lanceolate or ovate pinnatifid, rarely the lowest laciniae again pinnatifid, the margin nearly entire, involucres of nearly the same 

 color and texture as the frond, sometimes subrotund and free, mostly continuous, lobed and crenated, main rachis especially above villous. 

 Hoot Sp. FU. i. p. 87. 



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



Hab. Western Himalaya. 



PLATE No, CXLII. 



