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8-12 to a side, with a similar terminal one, linear-oblong, l\-2 in. 1. 3-4 

 li. b., bluutish, mostly contracted and then dilated at the barely conflu- 

 ent bases, subdistant, subcoriaceous ; upper surface dark green, and 

 slightly scaly, under densely felted and grayish with larger pale acumi- 

 nate fimbriate scales ; veins obscure, costae row of areola) not large, with 

 smaller internal ones ; sori uniserial, near the midrib, immersed in the 

 scaly vestiture. — Goniophlebium rhagadiolepis, Fee. Mem. Fil. t. 19, 

 fig. 3. 



Frequent on rocky banks at 4,000-5,000 ft. altitude ; common near 

 the Government Cinchona Plantations ; distinguished by it's short broad 

 fronds, few pinna), small copious areola), and stiffer habit in growth. 

 There is often a line of crustaceous dots around the margins of the pinnae 

 on the upperside. This and the preceding are quite truncate at the 

 base, the two following are not. 



59. P. squamatum, Linn. — Rootstock creeping, densely clothed with 

 fimbriate pale-edged dark very acuminate scales ; stipites contiguous, 

 4-8 in. 1., scaly or at length naked ; fronds lanceolate —oblong, 10-15 

 in. 1. 2^-3^ m - usually a little reduced at the base, elastical-coriaceous, 

 the under surface densely matted with acuminate dark-centred, pale- 

 edged fimbriate scales, the upper slightly so and rlark green ; pinnae 

 very numerous, spreading nearly horizontally, with their own width or 

 more between them linear ligulate, 1^-2 in. 1. 2-2^ li. b., bluntish or 

 acute, the base equally dilated, the lower ones, disconnected the upper 

 confluent by a very narrow ma* gin ; veins obscure, forming a costal line 

 of areola) ; sori immersed in the felt-like vestiture, uniserial, medial or 

 nearer the costae. PI. Fil. t ?9. 



Frequent on rocks, banks and trees from the lowlands, where it is 

 general through the country, up to 5,000 ft. alt where it is more abun- 

 dant. The scales of the rootstock have a light rather reddish tinge when 

 old The rachis is strong, and the scales that clothe it much attenuated, 

 and the fronds have a distinct terminal pinna. The lower pinnae are 

 in. apart. These are often barren, but on the others the sori are 

 very abundant reaching from the base to the apex. 



60. P. lepidopteris, Kze. — Rootstock creeping as thick as a quill, 

 densely coated with narrow-fringed scales having a ferruginous tinge ; 

 stipites approximate, 2-6 in. 1., scaly; fronds f 1^ ft. 1 3-1 in. b. 

 gradually tapeiing to the apex, the base reduced more or less abruptly 

 to mere deltoid small segments, subcoriaceous and rather elastical, 

 freely coated, but most densely beneath, with peltate-caudate pale 

 fringed, appressed scales ; pinnae very numerous, horizontal, linear - 

 ligulate, acute, 2 in. 1. 2\ li. b., dilated equally at the base and nar- 

 rowly confluent by an open rounded sinus, or the lower ones unconnec- 

 ted, with about twice their own width between them, those above 

 the middle somewhat narrowed above the expanded base ; sori unserial 

 near the midrib, immersed in the felt-like coating ; veins forming a 

 single line of costal areolae on eachside. 



Infrequent on rocks banks and in strong places at 4,000-5000 ft 

 altitude. Very near squamatum which it closely resembles in the shape 

 but differing in the more flaccid texture while growing, more copious 

 and paler silky vestiture, and the form of the dwarfed basal segments. 

 My specimens taper gradually to the apex which terminates in a 



