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SYNGRAMMA. 



SyNGRAMMA VESTITA. (Moore.) Caudex ? base of stipes clothed with golden scales, stipes 2-4 inches long, fronds 6-12 

 inches long 1-1 § inch broad, everywhere as well as the rachis and stipes velvetty with long sericeous golden hairs, most copious beneath, 

 subcoriaceo-membranaceous, pinnated to the apex alternate 7-14 on each side \ to one inch long, petiolate oblongo-ovate obtuse entire 

 often with an auricle at the superior base, veins simple forked or pinnate where pinnate the lower venules anastomose and form eltfbgated 

 costal areoles, sori universal on the veins. Grammitis % Wall.— Gymnogramme (Eugymnogramtne) vestifca. Hook, Sp. FiL v. 143 i 



The specimen figured is from N. W. Himalaya, (Hook. Fil. and Thomson.) 

 Hab. N. W. Himalaya, 5-8,000 feet elevation. 



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