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membranaceous, primary pinnte 5-12 rather distant, terminal one as large as or larger than the rest, all long petiolate, lowest pair often bi- 
partite, so as to form a pedate frond, pinnules petiolulate ^-f of an inch long, obliquely rhombeo-ovate, sub-falcate, acute, sub-auriculate 
at the superior truncated base and coarsely spinuloso-serrated, except at the inferior base, sori in a single series at the sinuses of the ser- 
ratures close to the superior margin and apex of the pinnules, indusium reniform. — Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 25. — Polystichum amabile. Hook. — 
Aspidium amabile, Bluvie. En. Fil.Jav., p. 165. — Aspidium rhomboideum, Wall Cat.?). 364,— f I have alim>/s found the involucre in 
■i/oT.ng state quite reniform and not peltate as described hy Sir W, Hooker). 
Pulney Hills— Anamallays. Not common. 
PLATE No. CIX. 
16. Lastrea gracilescens. (Hook ;) Caudex rather short, thick, horizontal creeping on the surfaces of the ground, scaleless, copiously 
rooting beneath, stipites very numerous and crowded on the upper surface of the caudex, slender a span to a foot long, stramineous- 
brown, fronds a span to li foot and more long, membranaceous, oblong-ovate or sub-lanceolate acuminate pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, 
pinnje sessile, 2-3-4 inches long, nearly i an inch wide, oblong acuminate deeply pinnatifid, segments oblong, obtuse, plane quite entire, 
veins distant, all simple, sori small nearer the margin of the segments than the costules, involucres small, renifomi, glabrous soon obsolete. 
Hooker. Sp. Fil. iv, 93 ;— Aspidium, £1. En. Fil. Jav., p. 155 ;— Aspidium Thelypteris, Benth. Fl. Hong Kong (vix. SwartzJ A. glandili- 
gerum. A"??. Analicta Pteridoge, p. 'H—IIetten Asp., p. 86. 
Travancore Hills — Rather rare, 
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