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ASPLENIUM, 



ASPLENIUM STENOPHYLLUM. (Bedd.) Caudex creeping, densely clothed with linear acuminate black smooth scales, 

 fronds subcoriaceous, narrow-linear acuminate, 15-18 inches long, £ to f th of an inch broad perfectly glabrous gradually attenuated into 

 a short stipes which is more or less furnished with scales similar to those on the caudex, costa prominent sulcate, veins sunken incon- 

 spicuous, once forked, terminating within the margin ; sori linear on the superior veinlet neither reaching to the costa nor extending to 

 the margin \ involucres conspicuous. 



Allied to A. ensiforme (Wall.) but with very narrow fronds like a Vittaria, 



The specimen figured is from Kungro, Sikkim (elevation 6,000 feet), (Dr. Anderson.) 



Hab. Sikkim— Himalaya. 



PLATE No. CXLVII. 



