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AsPLENiE^ (continued.) 
* * Veins free. 
AcTiN-ioPTERis, Link. Fil. Sp. 73, 79. 
(Belvisise sp. Mirhel ;— Asplenii sp. ^wc« ;— Blechni sp. Pt'esl Acrosticlii sp. Auct ;— Pteridis sp. Auci ;— Acropteridis sp. Fee). 
Sori indusiate, linear, elongate ; the 7-eceptacles marginal in the contracted rachif orm segments, lateral on the veins (which are 
few and longitudinal). Indusium plane, membranaceous, opening on the inner side. Vei)is few simple, nearly parallel from an in- 
distinct costa ; the basal and external ones sub-marginal, soriferous. 
Fronds fiabellately-partite, the segments rachiform, hardly foliaceous with few veins and marginal sori. Khizome sub-globose. 
A curious little palm-like fern, the sori though marginal and apparently pteroid, are really parallel with and lateral on the veins, it must 
therefore be placed amongst Aspleniese. (Moore). 
1. Actiniopteris radiata. (Link). Link. Fil. Sp. Ilort. Berol. p. 80— Hooker Sp. Fil. iii, 276. Asplenium radiatum, Konig ;— 
Acrostichum australe, Vahl Symbol i, p. 84. t. 25 ; — Acropteris radiata, Fee Gen. Fil, p. 76 ; — Pteris, Metten. Fil. Ilort. Lips. p. 53 ; — 
Blechnum flabellatum, Fresl. Tent. Pterid. p. 103. 
Found all over the presidency in dry rocky places from the sea level up to 3,500 or 4,000 feet. 
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Asplenium, Linnmis Gen. PI. 783. 
(Phyllitis, Moemh ; Onopteris, Necker ; Coenopteris, Bergi^^s ; Daraea, Jussieu ; Acropteris, Link ; Amesium, Nevmian ; 
Homaloneuron, Klotszcli ; Tarachia, Presl ; Brachysorus, Presl ; Hypochlamys, Fee; Daraeastrum, Fee; Allantodieae sip., P. Brotv?i , ■ 
Athyrii sp. .4mc< ; Polypodii sp. Auct ; Aspidii sp. Auct; Scolopendrii sp. Roth; Diplazii sp. Auct.; Acrostichii sp. Linn; Blechni 
sp. Auct.) 
Sori indusiate, linear short, or elongate oblique ; the receptacles lateral on the anterior side of the veins. Indusium linear 
membranaceous, plane, or fornicate. Veins simple or forked from a central costa (sometimes single and costsform in the ultimate nar- 
rowly cut segments) or forked from the base of the segments, the costa being evanescent or wanting, venules parallel, direct free. 
Fronds coriaceous, herbaceous or membranaceous ; rarely rachiform, simple lobed pinnate or variously decompound ; the racliis 
or veins not rarely proliferous. Sori usually on the anterior side of the venules, but often inverse in the basal auricles, sometimes 
diplazioid. Rhizome short, erect, or decumbent, sometimes stoloniferous. (Moore). 
1. Asplenium eiisiforme. (Wallich). Caudex short, thick, scarcely repent bearing dark-brown subulate scales at its summit, and 
at the base of the stipes — fronds coespitose a span to 1 and 1^ foot long, ^ to | inch broad, linear lanceolate, elongate firm, coriaceo-caniose, 
brownish green entire, gradually acuminated, and gradually and finely attenuated at the base into a petiole 2 or more inches long, veins 
sunken, erecto-patent usually once sorked, sori linear, broad in age, neither extending to the costa nor to the margin, about half an inch 
long. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, m—Wall. Cat. n. 200. 
Anamallays — banks of the Toracadoo river, 4,500 feet elevation — rare. — Sholas on the KudrJi Mukh (5,550 feet) near Manglore. 
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2. Aspleniiim Wightianum. (Wallich.) Caudex small, sub-repent rooting scaly above, stipites tufted a span or more high, fronds 
a foot and a half to two feet long, ovato-lanceolate coriaceous, pinnaj distant, petiolate, erecto-patent 4-6 inches and more long, elongato- 
lanceolate, subglossy rather coarsely, but not deeply serrated, (or occasionally in some sterile fronds deeply and irregularly pinnatifid with 
the segments serrated) rather longly acuminated and entire at the apex, attenuated at the base and gradually decurrent into the petiole, 
veins simple, rarely forked approximate, sori erecto-patent linear extending from the costa but not to the margin, indusium firm, white, 
and the same white color and texture extends to the vein, or as much of it as is occupied by the indusium, rachis compi'essed, scarcely 
winged. Hook Sp. Fil. iii, lOb.— Wall Cat. n. 2215.— A. coriaceum, Bory in Bel. Crypt, p. 46.— A. longipes, Fee.—k. Walkerje, 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 108. 
Anamallays — Bolamputty valley in the Coimbatore hills. — Pulney mountains — on rocks and trees in moist forests on the banks 
of rivers 2,000 to 4,00 feet elevation. 
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