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CHEILANTHES. 



ChEILANTHES RUFA, (Don.) Roots tufted, stipites rather short with few spreading scales and shaggy as is the whole rachis 

 with very copious spreading ferruginous hairs, fronds about a span long ovato-lanceolate subcoriaceous hirsuto-pubescent above, white 

 and pulverulent beneath, the margin densely ferrugineo-hirsute, pinnate, pinnatifid at the apex, piunae oblong very obtuse pinnatifid, the 

 lower ones subovate sub-bipinnatifid, involucres dark-brown membranaceous approximate and free or continuous and waved and crisped 

 or lobed and toothed at the margin, often quite concealed by the copious ferruginous tomentose shaggy hairs* — Hook Sp t Fill, 

 p. 79/ — Don. Prod. Fl. Nop. p. 18. Cheilanthes farinosa var. vestita. — Wall Cat n. 71 (4.) 



The specimen figured is from Burmah, (Parish.) 



Hab. Nepaul, Mergui ; Mishmee, Burmah, Khasya, Simla. 



PLATE No, CXLIY. 



