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NIPHOBOLUS. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 61.) 



NlPHOBOLUS LiEVIS. (J. Sm.) Caudex creeping clothed with linear setaceous scales, stipites distant J an inch to 2 

 inches long furnished with a tuft of scales at their base, fronds coriaceous linear lanceolate 2\ to 6 inches long, \ to § of an inch broad, 

 glabrous above hoary with stellated pubescence beneath, venation obscure, areoles between the costules 3, in each of which are 1, 2, 3 

 elavate veinlets variously directed free or rarely joined to the base of the areole above. Sori large partially sunk in the tomentum covering 

 nearly the whole of the underside of the frond or confined to the apex. 



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



Hab. Himalayas, Khasya Hills, 



PLATE No, CLXI. 



