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colored, fronds 1-3 feet long, oblong-lanceolate acuminate, sometimes proliferous, bi-rarely tri-pinnate, sub-coriaceous, primary pinnae ap- 
proximate from a broadish sub-petiolate, base long — or linear-lanceolate, sub-falcate, pinnules close, sub-rliombeo-ovate or lanceolate free, 
sub-petiolate or decurrent at the very base with the adjacent ones, spinosely or setosely serrated or lobate, the superior base more or less 
auricled, sori generally in 2 rows on each pinnule, and usually nearer the costa than the margin, costaj and costules more or less villoso- 
paleaceous beneath — Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, IS ; — Polypodium, Linn ; — Aspidium aculeatum, Siv. ; — Aspidium rufo-barbatum, Wall. Cat., p. 369 
and 370 Asp. squarrosum, Don. Prod. Nep.., p. 1 Aspidium setosum. Wall. Cat. n. 371 ;— Polystichum Wallichianum, Presl /—Aspi- 
dium brachypterum, Kze. in xxiv, Linncea, p. 288 ; — Asp. sub-inerme, Kze.. I. c, p)- 200 ; — Polystichum tacticopterum et mucronifolium, 
Kze. I. c. 
Very common about Ootacamund and the higher elevations of the Pulneys and Anamallays— a very variable species, and there 
are numerous forms which have received different names, but they all run one into another. Polystichum rufo-harhatum (Wallich) is a 
very Ijeautiful form, common about Ootacamund ; it is densely clothed with reddish hairs. Plate cxxii is the Polystichum angulare (Willd. 
Sp. PI. v., p. 257) considered a distinct species by most botanists, but united with P. aculeatum by Sir W. Hooker — it is a very com- 
mon form at Ootacamund — fronds much more membranaceous, pinnules small, orbicular, rhomboid, mostly auriculate, the serratures seti- 
ferous rather than spinulose. 
PLATE No. CXXI. Polystichum aculeatum (Sw.) 
PLATE No. CXXIL Polystichum angulare (Willd.) 
TRIBE 1. (§ 11) ASPLENIE^. 
(a). Indusium simple distinct. 
* Veins parallel transversely combined by a marginal vein. 
Thamnoptepjs, Presl. Tent. Ptericl. 105. 
(Neottopteris, J. ,S'»M7/t ;— Asplenii Sp. Auct.) 
Sori indusiate, linear-elongate, parallel oblique, the receptacles lateral, anterior. Indusium narrow-linear, membranaceous, plane. 
Veins simple or foi'ked from a central costa ; venules approximate, parallel united at their apices by a continuous slightly arcuate mar- 
ginal vein. 
Fronds simple, coriaceous often robust. Rhizome short, thick, erect. (Moore). 
1. Thamno2Jteris Phjllitidis (Don.) Fronds tufted about li foot long 2-3 inches broad, lanceolate sub- coriaceous, tapering at the 
base, sessile or decurrent into a more or less elongated stipes, costa at the back below sub-acute, veins approximate spreading. Don. 
Prorf. Nep.,p. 7 — Hooker. Sp. Fil., iii. 80 ; — Neottopteris stipitata, J. Sm. ; — Neottopteris Phyllitidis, J Sm. ; in Hook. Journ. of Botany, 
iii. 400 Asplenium simplex, Bhme. En., p. 174. 
Moist woods on the Anamallays 3,000 to 4,000 feet elevation, very abundant— (only differs from T. ^"^dus in being much smaller). 
PLATE No. CXXIII. 
