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PLEOPELTIS, 



xLEOPELTIS ROSTRATA. (Hook.) Caudex very long filiform creeping branched setaceous with very slender subulate 

 scales, stipites remote 1-2 inches long, fronds scarcely dimorphous from 2-4 1 inches long J an inch to an inch wide coriaceo-membrana^ 

 ceous opaque glabrous lanceolate or elliptical or ovato-lanceolate rather suddenly subrostrato-acuminate ; sterile ones often the shortest 

 and most obtuse, venation internal obscure, veins copiously reticulated, areoles mostly oblong angular obliquely directed from the costa 

 (no costules) each including one simple or branched veinlet sori very large in a single series on each side and near to the costa occupy* 

 ing the upper half of the frond or nearly the whole length. Hook. Sp. Fit. v. 6Q ; Cent of Ferns t. 53, or Ic, PL L 953, 



The specimen figured is from Khasya, (Hook, Fil. and Thomson.) 



Hab. Eastern Himalaya, Khasya, Mishmee, Bhootan. 



PLATE No. CUX, 



