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12. Asplenium formosum. (Willd.) Caudex short, stout, densely radiculose, stipites very numerous, coespitose scarcely an inch long, 
and as well as the rachis ebeneous, with a narrow wing on each side, fronds a span and more long, elongato-lanceolate acuminate rigid, 
sub-coriacio-membranaceous blackish-green, pinnated, pinnae an inch long, numerous approximate horizontal, semi-ovate sub-sessile 
rather obtuse, superior base dilated, truncate and parallel with the rachis scarcely auricled, inferior base cut off horizontally, the rest of 
the margin deeply and pinnatifidly incised, lobes oblong, obtuse, those nearest the base bifid, inferior pinnte distant, smaller sub-triangular, 
veins simple or forked, sori broad, oblique 2-3 on the lower side of the costa, none or rarely one on the upper side. Hook. Sp. Fil., iii, 
l4:Z;~WilkL Sp, n. v. p. 329 j— Asp. subalatum, Hooker d. Am. Bot. Beech, Voy. p. 312. t. 71 ;— Asp. odontophyllum. Wall. Cat n. 
2216. 
Nilgiris— very abundant in moist woods at the higher elevations. 
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