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AspLENiUM ( cojitimied. ) 
13. Aspleniim auritum. (Swartz.) Caudex short, ascending, crowned with paleaceous ovate acuminate scales, stipites coespi- 
tose 4-6 inches long, slightly winged above, lurid greenish-brown, fronds oblong or broad ovato-lanceolate, acuminate pale green, coriaceous 
truncated not contracted at the base, pinnate pinnatifid at the acuminate apex, pinnte often numerous, horizontal sub-petiolate 2-3 inches 
long, straight lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, or oblong and obtuse, the margin entire or variously toothed or serrat e 
pinnatifid, superior base generally auricled, auricle often free or truncate with a sub-triangular auricle, sometimes the pinnse are deeply 
pinnatifid in a regular manner, or the pinnae are in part or wholly again pinnated with the pinnules various in shape, entire or serrated, 
veins oblique, once or twice forked, sori oblong, generally copious, arranged in 2 series between the costa and margin, often confluent, 
indusium rigid-membranaceous of the same color as the frond, rachis compressed green, more or less sulcate and winged. Hoolc. Sp. Fil, 
iii, 178 ; — Swartz, Fl. In. Occ.,p. 1616 ; — Asplenium sulcatum, Moore. 
Nilgiris, Coonoor on rocks rare — Anamallays rocks in the bed of the Toracaddoo river 4,500 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CXXXVII. 
14. Asplenium prolongatum. (Hooker.) Caudex small woody inclined, rooting scarcely scaly, stipites 2-4 inches long, tufted 
stramineous sub-compressed, fronds 4-5 inches to a foot long at the utmost, coriaceous or sub-chartaceous, oblong or narrow linear- 
oblong falcate, suddenly terminated in a caudate, naked extension of the rachis 1-2 inches long, rooting at the very apex, bi-scarcely tri- 
pinnate, primary pinnae 1-1^ inch long, horizontally patent, generally approximate, or crowded, semi-ovate obtuse, petiolate semi-pinnate 
(pinnules more numerous on tlie superior than the inferior side) pinnules 3-4 lines long, mostly simple, entire rarely forked, still more 
rarely, and only in the lowest superior pinnule bi or tri-partite, pinnules and segments narrow linear often curved, obtuse monosorous, 
veins single, sori oblong or linear, very narrow, marginal, involucres firm-membranaceous of the same pale green color as the frond. — 
Hooker, Sp. Fil. iii, 209.— Hook. 2nd Cent, of Ferns— '^2. 
Shevagherry Hills — rare. 
PLATE No. CXXXVIIL 
15. As2)len.ium planicaule. (Wallich.) Caudex small, thick, erect, densely rooting, crowned with black subulate scales, stipites 
3-5 inches long, tufted, and as well as the rachis compressed sparsely and deciduously villoso-paleaceous, fronds a span rarely to a foot 
long, sub-coriaceous, firm oblong acuminate (apex pinnatifid) petiolate, sub-horizontal dimidiato-ovate, acuminate venoso-striate from 1 to 
(rarely) l\ inch long, superior base obliquely truncate, sub-auriculate, inferior base excised for half or more of the length from the base, 
the rest of the margin irregularly and often deeply inciso-pinnatifid, segments narrow, sometimes pungent, veins erecto-patent, conspicu- 
ous approximate, once or more forked, sori linear-elongated, those towards the apex of the pinnfe and those below the costa parallel with 
the costa, those in the auricle more patent, involucre pale-broAvn, firm. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 163 ;—Wall. Cat. n. 189 Asplenium falca- 
tum var. c. abbreviatum, Kze. in Liniicea. xxiY,p. 260 ; — A. semihastatum. Wall. M. S. (not Kze.) ; — Tarochia truncata, Br. 
Veiy common in most mountainous tracts on the western side of the presidency. — Myhendra hill near Berhampore. 
PLATE No. CXXXIX. 
16. Asplenium contigumn. (Klfs.) Fronds pinnate, pinnae linear-lanceolate attenuate, inciso-serrate, serratures toothed, the 
superior base rotundato-cuneate sub-auriculate, inferior abscisso-attenuate, sori contiguous, parallel with the costa, caudex repent, stipes 
6 inches long, frond equally long, pinnae an inch and a half to 3 inches. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii, 156 ; — Kaulf. En. Fil., p. 175. 
Anamallay Hills, 3,000 feet elevation ; Nilgiris 7,000 feet— Wynad. 
PLATE No. CXL. (Fig. A is one of the pinnos of a more cut variety, common in the Wynad.) 
17. Asplenium falcatum. (Lam.) Caudex repent, stout, more or less clothed with dark-bown sphagnoid scales, stipites 6-10 
inches long, lurid-brown, and as well as the rachis deciduously villoso-paleaceous, fronds 8-10 inches to 2 feet long, sub-coriaceous 
ovato-lanceolate, pinnate, pinnae horizontal rather long-petiolate 4-6 inches and more long from a broad obliquely cuneate base, i-| 
of an inch broad, lanceolate, much and often finely caudato-acuminate, lobato-pinnatifid, the segments pointing upwards, the superior 
