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Cyrtomium, Presl. Tent. Pterid. 86. 
(Phaneroplilebia, Presl. Aspidii Sp. Auct. ; — Polypodii Sp. Auct.) 
Sori indusiate, globose in several series parallel to the costse ; the receptacles medial on the excurrent, free or anastomosed 
venules or veinlets, rarely terminal near the margin. Indusimi orbicular peltate. Veim pinnato-furcate, from a central costse ; the 
lower anterior venules free, the rest angularly and irregularly anastomosing, forming unequal sub-hexagonal areoles, within which are pro- 
duced 1-3 excurrent veinlets ; or the upper venules only angularly anastomosing. 
Fronds robust coriaceous pinnate. Rhizome short, thick, erect. (Moore). 
1. Cyrtomium caryotideum (Presl. ;) Caudex short, thick, erect, densely paleaceous with large erect scales, stipites tufted 10-12 
inches long, very scaly below, fronds ^ a foot to 2 feet long, oblong sub-coriaceo-carnose, (when recent) of a pale yellowish green colour, 
opaque (not glossy) pinnated, pinnae 3-4-6 inches long, petiolate ovate much acuminated (sometimes repando-lobate) falcate sharply 
serrated, siiperior base much broader than the inferior, generally extended into a long sharp acuminated appendage or ear, the lowest pair 
and terminal pinnte often with one on each side, veins anastomosing, pimiate flexuose, costal areoles with a solitary soriferous free veinlet, 
superior ones with two or three veinlets clavate at their apex, sori scattered or sub-seriate, indusium orbicular, peltate entire or laciiiiated 
at the margin, rachis and rather short petioles setaceo-paleaceous. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 40 -—Presl. Tent. Pterid., p. 86 t. 2, /. 26 ;— Aspi- 
dium caryotideum, Wall. Cat. n. 376 Aspidium anomophyllum ( Zenker Plantce IndicceJ var. macroptera et microptera, K^mze ;— 
Cyrtonium falcatum, Pappe et Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr., p. 15 ( not of SivartzJ. 
Nilgiris — Sholas about Ootacamund — rather rare. 
( The variety " 7nic7-optera" of Kunze ha^ more numerous and smaller pi nnre than the plant here fijured, ivhkh is "'macroptera,'^ 
of Kunze, there are however intermediate forms, and they cannot even be considered as varieties.) 
PLATE No. CXIX. 
PoLYSTiCHUM, Poth. Tent. Fl. Germ. iii. 69 ( redact J. 
(Hypopeltis, Richard; Aspidium, ; 'Rwm.ohxa,, Raddi ; Hemigoniuni, J. Smith ; ValtoiMmi^i, Fee ; Cyclopeltis, J". .Sz/i/i/i ; 
Hemicardion, Fee ; Teetariaj Sp. cavanilles ; Nephrodii Sp. Presl. ; Lastrea Sp. AiKt. ; Polypodii Sp. Au:t. ;) 
indusiate, globose ; the 7vcc^j^(7c??.? medial, or rarely terminal on the venules. Indusium orbicular peltate. Veins pinnato- 
furcate, or simply forked from a central costa, veinlets free ; the lower anterior one usually, sometimes more fertile. 
Fronds simple pinnate, or bi-tri-pinnate, rigid, coriaceous, the margins usually mucronate-serrate — Pihizome short, thick, erect. 
(Moore). 
1. Pobjstichum aurictilatum. (Swartz ;) Caudex stout, thick, erect or oblique, more or less copiously scaly, stipites brown or 
stramineous, 4 inches to a span long, more or less paleaceous, as is the rachis, fronds -t a foot to 2 feet long oblong — or broad-lanceolate, 
pinnated sub-membranaceous, or coriaceous, pinnse horizontal, varying much in size and form 1-3 inches in length, sessile or nearly so, 
in the normal state from a broad cuneate base ; truncated and sharply auricled above ; excised beneath, falcato-lanceolate, acuminate, sub- 
entire or serrated especially on the upper margin and towards the apex unarmed, or varying extremely in length and breadth, and becoming 
more or less pinnatifid with the segments or lobes or teeth variously spinulose, often deeply pinnatifid, and even again pinnate at tlieir 
base, sori in two rows nearer the margin than the costa, involucres membranaceous, very fugacious, (only to be detected in very young 
ironds)— Hooker. Sp. Fil. iv, 11 ;— ^«'. Syn. Fil., p. U 1 Polypodium, Linn. Sp. PI., jk 1.548. 
(The normal form which is the only one found in Southern India has simply pinnated fronds, in some of the forms found in 
Northern India, the fronds are bi-pinnate). 
Very common on the higher ranges of the Nilgiris and other lofty mountains on the AVestern side of the Presidency. 
PLATE No. CXX. 
2. Pobjstichum cmcleatum (Sw. ;) Caudex short, sub-erect, stipites tufted and rachises more or less clothed with ferruginous 
scales of two forms, one slender and resembling hairs on the stipes especially, mixed with large ovate or lanceolate ones, sometimes two 
