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CHEXLANTHES, 



CHEILANTHES SZOVITZIL (Fisch. et Mey.) Roots densely tufted from a short thick caudex, stipites crowded 24 inches 

 long, slender and as well as the principal rachises ebeneous somewhat hairy mixed with copious long spreading subulate scales, fronds 

 3-4 inches long oblong-lanceolate, quite glabrous above, densely woolly and generally tawny beneath, tri-subquadripinnate, primary pinnie 

 ovate acuminate approximate or distant, pinnules small subrotund or subcordate, sublobate, terminal ones often larger and oblong, the 

 margin revolute forming nearly a continuous involucre* the edges obscurely membranaceous.— Hook Sp. Fil \. p, 98; Fisch. et Mey. in 

 Hohenacher En. PI. Frov. Talysch., p. 11. 



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



Hab. Caucasian Alps, Afghanistan, Peshawur, Indus Valley (7,500 feet elevation), Kashmir* and Western Thibet (8,500 

 feet elevation), Scinde, 



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