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NTPHOBOLFS. 



-iNlPHOBOLUS DETERGIBILIS. (J. Sin.) Caudex rather stout densely fibroso-radicant paleaceous especially about the 

 base of the stipites with finely subulate ferruginous scales, stipites 4-6-8 inches long aggregated clothed as is the whole plant with a 

 dense compact mass of whitish or ferruginous stellated tomentum which not unfrequently peels off in dense cottony masses from the 

 upper side of the fronds leaving that part quite naked and glabrous, fronds from 4-16 inches long f-l| inch broad carnoso-coriaceous 

 younger ones often ovato-acumiuate mature ones lanceolate finely acuminate subsinuate moderately attenuate decurrent not unfrequently 

 broader and subhastate at the base then suddenly cuneate, sometimes wrinkled above by the impressions of the sori from the other side 

 and obscurely nigro-punctate, below the stellated tomentum is long retained, venation immersed, costules indistinct, intervening areoles 

 9-15, veinlets 3-5 irregular free or meeting a veinlet from the bass of the areole above sori scarcely sunk small and but slightly°elevated 

 above the tomentum very copious arranged with great regularity.— 'Booh. S-p-. Fil. v. 49 ;— Polypodum vestitum. Wall. Ms. 



The specimen figured is from the Himalayas (Dr. Stewart.) 



Hab. Chiefly North Bengal and along the lower ranges of the Himalayas from very low altitudes of Silhet and Assam to 3,500 

 feet in Kumaon— from Simla in the west to Bhootan in the east. Nepal. 



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