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SAGENIA, 



bAGENIA VARIOLOSA. (Wall.) Caudex stout creeping, stipites approximate subcsespitose a span to 1-I| foot long, 

 sparingly paleaceous at the base, fronds coriaceo-membranaceous a span to a foot and more long, glabrous cordate or cordato-ovate acumi- 

 nate trifoliate or more frequently pinnate with two or three near]y opposite pairs of pinnae and a larger terminal one more or less-petio- 

 late, lowest pair large half-ovate bifid or bipartite or bifoliate, intermediate pairs lanceolate lobato-pinnatifid, inferior lobes the longest, 

 terminal one sub-rhomboidal below, deeply pinnatifid with long acuminated entire of lobed segments, primary veins from the costa patent 

 slender more or less waved remote, the rest of the veins uniformly anastomosing with areoles enclosing free simple or forked veinlets, sori 

 scattered most copious near the margins of the pinnae compital or more frequently terminal on a vein within a large areole. Hook. Sp. 

 Fit. iv. 51. Wall. Oat. n. 379; — Sagenia variolata Moore ? — Aspidium coadunatum ? in part Mett. Asp : p. 281, 



Very closely allied to Sagenia coadimata. 



The figure represents the upper portion of a frond and is taken from a specimen from Parasnath, Bengal, (Dr. Thomson.) 



Hab. Amherst, Tavoy, Penang, Moulmein. Chittagong, Mergui, Parasnath, Telyn above Sylhet. 



PLATE No. CLXX. 



