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The upj)er surface of the whole frond is nearly naked, but its under- side 

 is very woolly. The sori (spore masses), which are not situated quite on 

 the margin of the segments, are covered by their edge, which is of a 

 parchment-like texture, toothed, and so much incurved as to form a nearly 

 continuous involucre. — Hooker^ Species Filicum, ii., p. 103. 



C. spectabilis — spec-ta'-bil-is (showy). Synonymous with C. cJilorophylla. 



C. squamosa — squa-mo'-sa (scaly). The plant usually found in gardens 

 under this name is the same as Nothochlcena squamosa of Fee. 



C. SUaveolens — sua'-ve-ol-ens (sweet-smelhng). A synonym for C. fragrans. 



C. (Eucheilanthes) SUbvillosa — Eu-cheil-anth'-es ; sub-vil-lo'-sa (some- 

 what villous, or furnished with long weak hairs), Hooker. 

 A greenhouse species, of medium growth, which, like C. Dalhousioe^ 

 differs from all the rest of the sub-genus in its broader segments and 

 herbaceous (soft) texture. It is a native of the Pahur Yalley and Simla 

 Himalayas. The fronds, 6in. to 12in. long, 2in. to 3in. broad, and borne on 

 rather brittle, polished, densely-tufted stalks 2in. to 4in. long, of a bright 

 chestnut-brown colour and clothed with spear-shaped scales below, are spear- 

 shaped and tripinnatifid (three times divided half-way to the midrib). Their 

 leaflets, which are disposed in numerous pairs, the lower ones distant, are 

 l^-in. long, more than lin. broad, and divided into leafits of a herbaceous 

 (soft, papery) texture ; those on the lower side the largest, sometimes lin. 

 long, oblong-spear-shaped, and cut down to the rachis (stalk of the leafy 

 portion) into oblong lobes. The copious small sori (spore masses) are evenly 

 disposed around the margin of the lobes, and are covered by greenish 

 involucres. — Hooker^ Species Filicum, ii., p. 87, t. 98b. Beddome, Ferns of 

 British India, t. 142, 



C. (Physapteris) Szovitzii — Phy-sap'-ter-is ; Szo-vitz'-i-i (Szovitz's), 

 Fischer arid Meyer. 

 This greenhouse species, closely related to C. lanuginosa, from which it 

 only ditFers by having distinct scales mixed with the tomentum (woolly 

 covering) of the stalks and rachis, is a native of Asia Minor and Persia, 

 extending southward to North Hindostan, and ascending in the Himalayas 



