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§13. GYMNOGKAMME.E. ' ' 



(c.) Veins eonnivently anastomising below, 



STEGNOGRAMMA. Bl. En. Fil. Java. 172. 



(Syneuron, J. Sm. M. S.— Gymnogrammitis, Sp. BL— Phegopteridis, Sp. Mettenius.) 



Gen char. Sori non-indusiate, linear or oblong, oblique, parallel • the receptacles simple elongated and medial. 7dm simple 

 from a central costa j the lower or more opposite pairs angularly connivent-anastomisifig. P 



Fronds herbaceous pinnate or pinnato-pinnatifid. Rhizome thickish decumbent or erect and sub-arborescent. This is amongst 

 Gymnogramme* what Nephrodmm is amongst Aspidie* and Goniopteris among Polypodies. (Moore.) 



StEGNOGBAMMA ASPIDIOIDES. (BL) Caudex ascending more or less paleaceous-subrepent, Me plant on both sides 



7Z1 Itr 1113 ! ^ T^T^I S ° metimeS d6nSely ViH0US ' StlpiteS teminal 0n the caudex tufted * -P« to * foot long 

 a. length glabrous glossy, fronds 1- 1 J foot long 5-6 inches wide ovate-lanceolate acuminate pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, firm! 

 membranaceous pmn. oppose or alternate sessile subtruncate or more or less adnate at the base 3-4 inches long rarely an Lh wide 

 oblongo-lanceolate lobato-pmnatmd, superior ones confluent, veins 5-6 pairs from each costule simple 3 lower ones united to those oppo- 

 sxte and formmg an excurrent spurious vein reaching to the sinus, those in the lobes free, all soriferous, sori linear-oblong occupying 

 Zl^ M O S 1 ^-^ * Fil - 150 -^- **• ™ '«. P- 172, (not Ml. Jav. p. 112, which is Gymnogram 



m»tott») GymnogrammeStegnogra m me,^.m t 7a,p.98,44. Phegopteris Stegnogramme, Metten. k hU Lips, p. 84. 



The specimen figured is from Khasya, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Java, (3-4,000 feet elevation), Khasya (6,000 feet elevation), Ceylon, (vide p. 78 « Ferns of Southern India and Ceylon.") 



PLATE No. CXLIX. 



