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Frequent on wet rocks along river courses among the lower hills ; 

 marked from the four preceding by the fronds being invariably trun- 

 cate and usually widest at the base, and the sharper-toothed less deeply 

 cut, pinnules, in which the sori though one to each tooth, are chiefly 

 on the disk within, extending thence into the base of the serratures. 

 The basal pinna though close to, do not overlap the rachis as in the al- 

 lied species. The rusty ruddy character of the abundant sori first 

 mentioned by Sloane, is a beautiful and characteristic feature. 



35 A. rutaceum, Mett.-Stipites csespitose from a small upright fibrous 

 and a brown scaly root-stock, short (hardly any clear of the dwindling 

 pinnse) channelled, polished, dark brown ; fronds oblong-lanceolate, 

 tripinnate, 10-15 in. L, 3-4 in. w,, thinly membranous, grass green, 

 naked, rachis prolonged beyond the acuminate apex into a delicate 

 threadlike naked green tail 2-4 in. 1. radicant at the end ; pinnae hori- 

 zontal, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 1^-2 in. 1. 6-8 li. w.,the rather flexu- 

 ous flattish slender green costse generally terminating like the rachis 

 but not prolonged ; pinnulae obliquely cuneate, stipitate, composed of 

 2-4 laxly spreading acute-obtuse subspathulate or oblong final seg- 

 ments which are 1J-2 li. f li. b., with a single vein and sorus to each, 

 the latter half elliptical, lateral ; involucres thin, the shape of the sori. 

 Hook. 2nd Cent. Ferns, t. 34. PI. t. 57. 



Frequent on rocks and banks by shady river courses in moist dis- 

 tricts from 2000-4000 ft. alt. A delicately thin species, resembling 

 the preceding in general cutting, tapering equally both up and down 

 with hardly any clear stipes, and terminated with a naked filiform tail 

 which roots eventually at the end, as in rhizophorum. In Plunder's 

 figure the tail is not represented, and the sori appear round, hence 

 Willdenow's mistake in placing it in Aspidium. 



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