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confluent into a pinnatifid apex, superior pinnse generally having the basal segment decurrent upon the rachis, lowest pair of pinnas (and 
base of the next pair) often very long a foot or more, and again more or less pinnated, segments more or less acute or acuminated, 
serrato-dentate or lobato-pinnatifid, veinlets forming oblong areoles near tlie costa and costales then variously anastomosing in the 
pinnae and partially in the segments, the veinlets in the segments nearly all free, flexuose, more or less divaricating and once or twice 
forked, areoles including free simple or forked fertile veinlets (rarely any sterile veinlets) and generally with a terminal sorus, within the 
segments, the lowest veinlet on the superior side bears a terminal sorus, sori sub-marginal, involucres reniform. Hook. Si>. Fil. iv. 50 ; 
— Aspidium giganteum, Blume, En. Fil. Jav. p. 159 Polydictyum, Presl. Aspidium intermedium. J. ,Sviitli in Hook. 
Journ. of Hot. iii. 410 ;— 
Anamallays— Malabar. 
PLATE No. LXXX. 
2. Sagenia coadunata (Moore) Caudex stout ascending clothed at the apex with black subulate falcate scales, stipites more or 
less tufted from 1-2 inches to a foot and half long, stramineous or castaneous or ebeneous, scaly, scales lanceolato-subulate, spreading 
deciduous, fronds 4-6 inches to 2-3 feet long, oblong or ovate, membranaceous, pinnate, (young plants three-foliate,) or below bi-pinnate 
the apex variously pinnatifid, pinnae generally opposite oblong sub-sessile obtuse or acuminate variously lobed and pinnatifid, often un- 
equally, lowest pair petiolate, semi-ovate, with the lower segments very long and pinnatifid — primary veins nearly straight, the rest variously 
anastomosing inappendiculate, sori in two series one on each side the costal vein of each segment compital (on the net Avork of the 
veins) or terminating a veinlet within a large costal areole, involucres reniform. Aspidium cicutarium. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 48 in part 
—Aspidium coadunatum. Wall. Cat. n. 337. 
Very abundant in most sub-alpine jungles on the western side of the presidency. 
PLATE No. LXXXL 
3. Sagenia pteropus (Moore) Caudex stout erect, stipites tufted short, stout partially scaly at the base, fronds 2-3 feet or 
more long, firm, membranaceous, sub-coriaceous, broad-oblong, deeply pinnatifid with 3-4 or 6 pair of long (6 inches to 1 foot, 1 inch and 
more broad,) oblong or oblong-lanceolate, more or less acuminated segments, lowest pair bi-tri -partite at the inferior margin, terminal lobe 
often trifid, the margin entire or more or less sinuate or pinnatifido-lobate, primary veins distinct, parallel, flexuose, secondary ones trans- 
verse with these forming arched areoles which are occupied by anastomosing veins, including copious free veinlets and two sori on short 
free veinlets, these sori form two lines or series between the primary veins, involucre on a large oblong receptacle rotundato-cordate 
persistent— //oo^'. Sp. Fil. iv. 47— Aspidium pteropus, Kunze, Bot. Zeit. iv. /). 462 ; — Aspidium decurrens. ./. Smith, Journ. of 
Botanic, \\\. p. ^10. — Asp. platynotus, A';<«re;— Cordiochl«na alata, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 315 — Asp. macrophyllum, Bl. En. Fil. Jan. p. 144 
(exd. syn.) 
Bolampatty valley (Coimbatore hills.) 
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Pleocnemia, Fresl. Tent. Pter. 183. 
(Haplodictyum, Fresl. ; — Polypodii, Sp. Aud. ;— Aspidii, Sp. Aiict. ; — Nephrodii, Sp. Aud. ; — Cyclodii, Sp. ( Moore. J 
Sori indusiate, globose ; the receptades medial on the free or anastomosed venules. Indusium reniform, affixed at the sinus. 
Veins (of segments, i. e., venules) simple or forked from a costffi form mid-vein, the lower opposite ones arcuately anastomosing, forming 
elongated, angulate, costal areoles ; the upper free ; the intermediate usually forming one series of unequal hexagonal areoles next the 
costae form vein ; margin veinlets free. 
Fronds herbaceous, ample, bi-pinnato-pinnatifid, the lower pinnaj bi-partite, or small and pinnatifid. Rhizome short, creeping 
or sub-arborescent. —(Moore.) 
Pleocnemia aristata (Hooker) Caudex creeping, stipites close-placed a span to a foot long, fronds of the same length as the 
stipites (fertile ones, often longer than the sterile) ovate sub-membranaceous pinnate, pinnae 7-13 spreading all petiolate 3-6 inches long 
2 to H inches broad oblongo-lanceolate falcate, finely acuminate, lobato-pinnatifid obliquely cuneate at the base rarely with 2 or 3 obovate 
auricles or distinct pinnules, their lobes triangular-ovate acute and as well as the apices of the pinnae sub-aristato-serrate, primary veins 
(or costules of the lobes) pinnated with obliquely patent veinlets of which 1-3 pairs of the lower ones unite and form a very acute 
angle, sori dorsal on free or united veinlets, involucres subreniform, or oblong or lunate (as in Athyrium) sometimes ciliate. Jlook. Sp. 
