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glabrous and scaleless as are the main rachises ; fronds firm-membranaceous, pale-green, 3 inches to U foot long, sub-quinquefidly 
deltoid, acuminate, very pilose on all the costse and costules on both sides, and on the veins beneath with white hairs, tripinnate, primary 
pinnae oblong or ovate acuminate 3 inches to a span long, petiolate lowest pair especially on petioles or branches 2-3 inches long semi- 
ovate, tlie lowest basal secondary pinnae the longest, pinnules oblong-ovate J to 1 inch long obtuse deeply pinnatifid, decurrent at the 
base, the segments oblong-ovate toothed or subinciso-pinnatifid, veinlets forked, sori most copious, involucres large pale-colored mem- 
branaceous reniform convex very villous— Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 141 ;— Nephrodium hirsutum, Don. Prod. Nep., p. 6 ;— Hypodematium 
onustum, Kunze. inFlor. 1833, jt). 689 ;— Aspidium pilosulum, Wall. Cat. n, 337 {not Kimze) ;— Asp. subdiaphanum, Wall. Cat. v. 343 
Hypodematium Ruppellianum, Kunze. in Sckk. Fil. Suppl. t. 21 Cystopteris odorata, Pr. Tent. Pterid p. 93. 
Anamallays, on the Peringoonda Hill 5,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XCV. The plant figured is rather a dwarf form of this species. 
2, Lastrea hirtipes (Moore) Caudex short thick erect and as well as the stout tufted stipites and rachis densely crinite with 
large long subulate intensely black flexuose scales (more or less deciduous) fronds 2-3 feet long, sub-coriaceous ovato-lanceolate pinnate 
confluently pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae 3-6-8 inches long more or less remote, horizontally patent from a truncated or subcordate and 
nearly sessile inauriculated base oblong, long-acuminated variously lobed or pinnatifid or crenated or even serrated at the margin, lobes 
obtuse or acute, veins pinnated sori dorsal upon the veinlets remote from the margin, involucres, small reniform sub- coriaceous — Hooker sp. 
Fil. iv. 115 — Nephrodium hirtipes. Hooker — Aspidium atratum, Wall. Cat. n, 380. 
Nilgiris— very abundant 4,000 feet and upwards. Anamallays— Pulneys, 
PLATE No. XCVL 
