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SAGENIA. (See " Ferns of Southern India/* p. 27.) 



bAGENIA ALA.TA. (Wall.) Caudex creeping ? Stipites rather distant 1-2 feet long but winged a long way down some- 

 times almost to the base and there subulato-paleaceous, fronds subeoriaceo-inembranaceous 2-3 feet and more long oblong deeply pinnati- 

 fid with 4-5 pairs of distant oblong (6-18 inches long and 1-2 wide) or strap-shaped acuminated segments, inferior ones entire or bipar- 

 tite, primary veins horizontally patent slender, connected by transverse zigzag secondary ones forming areoles which include anastomosing 

 veins with free veiulets, sori small very copious scattered without order arising from reticulations (hence compital) not extending to the 

 margin, involucre small cordate. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 47. Wall. Gat. n. 378 ; — Bathmium Fee. ; — Aspidium vastum, Bl. En. p. 142. 



Very nearly allied to S. pteropus (Kze.), but the sori are copious and scattered without order, instead of being in two rows 

 between the primary veins, the magnified portion in the figure represents a portion of the frond between two primary veins. 



The specimen figured is from the Khasya Hills, the involucres had all fallen off and so are not represented. 



Hab." Sylhet, Khasya, Assam, Malacca, Singapore, Borneo, Java. 



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