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16. P. sophoroides. Thunb. in Linn. Trans. 2. 341,* 

 Fronds pinnate^ a little hairy ; leaflets ensiform, gashed-ser- 



rate, the lower pair of serratures longer ; terminal one taper- 

 ing to a fine serrated point. Fructifications sometimes in a 

 single line of spots on each side of the nerve ; sometimes they 

 form a nearly continued line near the margins of the incisures. 



Nat. of the Moluccas, &c. Fructifies during the rainy 

 season. 



17. P. proliferum. R. Icon. Roxb. 14, t. 101. 



Fronds pinnate, drooping, and often ending in long creep- 

 ing flagelli ; leaflets opposite, and alternate, tapering from a 

 truncated base, obtusely crenulate, smooth. Fructifications 

 in lines parallel with the veins. 



Beng. Depu. 



Hind. Kull-ke-jaup, 



Nat. of Bengal, and the more interior parts of India. 

 Grows among brushwood, long grass, &c. in moist shady 

 places about Calcutta ; fructifies during the latter part of the 

 rainy season. 



Root creeping, flexuose, dark blackish rust colour, with 

 many fibres of the same hue. 



Stipe smooth, channelled, as thick as a quill % of various 

 lengths according to soil, &c. the whole length of it and the 

 fronds, including the tail, is often as much as 10-12 feet. 



Fronds drooping, pinnate. Leaflets sessile, opposite, 

 and alternate, sword-shaped, with an oblique cordate base ; 

 margins notched; notches lanceolate; both sides smooth, 

 with numerous, beautiful, parallel, diverging veins, each 

 ending in the apex of a notch ; the largest are from 4 to 6 

 inches long, those of the tail small, often hastate or 3-lobed. 

 Tail long, sarmentous. 



Note. — In luxuriant plants the fronds are frequently ram- 

 ous, that is here and there a similar frond growing from the 

 axils of the leaflets. 



* Aspidium Sophoroides, Hb. Roxb. Wall. Cat. p. 67 No, 2238 ? 



