152 



GRAMMITIS. (See « Ferns of Southern India," p. 17.) 



URAMMITIS AURITA. (Hook.) Caudex creeping elongated paleaceous, stipites a span to a foot long, dark, castaneous 

 glossy, fronds 1J-2 feet long firm membranaceous ovato-oblong acuminate pinnate rarely sub-bipinnate, pinna* mostly opposite in distant 

 pairs approximate (confluent at the apex) 4-8 and more inches long, J. 1 inch wide from a broad sessile base (1 J-2 inches wide) oblong 

 gradually acuminated deeply pinnatifid, lobes broader at the base oblongo-acuminate crenato-serrate the lowest pair twice longer and 

 larger, especially the inferior one and sub-pinnatifid, veins simple or forked all soriferous, sori oblong simple rather nearer the margin than 

 the costule.— Hook. Ic. PI. t. 974, or 74, Cent, of Ferns. Sp. Fil. v. p. 141.— Phegopteris of J. Sm, 



The specimen figured is from the Khasya Hills, (Blandford.) 



Hab. Khasya, Mumbree and Muncklow, Lachen, (alt. 6,000 feet.) 



PLATE No. CLII, 



