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GONIOPHLEBIUM. (See page 5.) 



(xONIOPHLEBIUM LAGHNOPUS. (Wall.) Caudex long creeping thick as a writing-pen densely clothed with long black 

 setaceous bristles, stipes 2-4 inches long stramineous-brown, fronds membranaceous 6-8 inches to If foot long 1 |-3f inches wide oblong 

 terminating in an acuminated nearly entire apex, deeply nearly to the rachis pectinato-pitmatifid, segments linear or linear-oblong acute 

 or obtuse, dentato serrate, lowest pair sometimes deflexed, veins forming a costal soriferous series of large areoles (partially free) marginal 

 veinlets short free clavate, soriferous veinlet arising from the side of the vein distant from the costule, sori orbieul-ir rarely oval, nearer 

 the costa than the margin, rachis beneath often subpaleaceous with orbicular spinuloso-dentate scales terminated by a long seta. Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. v. 25 ; Wall: Cat. n. 310.— Polypodium Fieldingianum, Kze.—Meit. Polyp. 15. 



The specimen figured is from Simla, (Dr. Stewart.) 



Fig. A. is a pinna of a curiously cut variety from Sikkim, (Dr. Anderson.) Fig. B. is a pinna of a frond with free venation. 



Hab. Nepaul, Kumaon, Khasya (4-6,000 feet) Sikkim, (9-11,000 feet) Simla, Kumaon (7,000 feet.) 



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