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Fronds simple, dimoi'phous or contracted at the fertile apex, usually coriaceous. Rhizome creeping. (Moore.) 
1. Drymoglossum piioselloides (Presl.) Rhizome creeping, covered with close pressed peltate scales, sterile fronds glabrous fleshy, 
oblong, obovate, to rotundate, unequal sided ^ to 1 inch long by about the same breadth — fertile ones linear attenuated at the base 3 to 
A\ inches long, 3 lines broad, sori linear marginal continuous— Pref^.; Tent; Pter. 227, t. 10, firj. 5-6— D. rotundifolium et D. spathula- 
tum, Presl, — Acrostichum heterophyllum, Linn. sp. Pl. 1523 — Nothochlsena piioselloides. Kaulfs. Bl, Fl, Jav. 67 — Pteris piioselloides. 
Linn. Sp. PL 1530— Pteris piioselloides. ZJesi;.- Taenitis piioselloides. P. Br. 
Nilgiris — Anamallays — Malabar — Courtallum— on trees, 
PLATE No. LV. 
TKIBE I. (§ 10) MENISCIE^. 
Veins' regularly anastomosing transversely between the pinnate lyarallel veins. 
:Meniscium, Schreber. Lin. Gen. PI. Ed. 8, ii. 757. 
Sori non-indusiate, linear-oblong, curved, often becoming confluent; the receptacles seated on the transverse parallel-curved 
venules, between the primary veins. Veins pinnate from a central costa, prominent ; venules angularly or arcuately anastomosing between 
the veins, producing an excurrent free sterile veinlet from the apex of the arc or angle. 
Fronds herbaceous or sub-coriaccous, simple or pinnate. Rhizome creeping (only differs from Goniopteris in Polypodieas in 
the shape of the sori). (Moore.) 
1. Menisciimi trij^hylhim (Sw.) caudex creeping, furnished with scales — stipe 10 to 15 inches long, — fronds pinnate, fertile more 
or less contracted, pinnas 1 pair with an odd one, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate repand, cuneate and unequal at the base, slightly hairy 
on the costa and veins, lower pinnse sub-opposite or alternate. 
Bolumputty valley in the Coimbatore hills. 
PLATE No. LVI. 
TRIBE 2. CYATHEINE^. 
§ L CYATHE^. 
Cyathea, Smith, Mem. Acad, Turin, v. 416. 
(Sphajropteris, Bern/iardi ; Disphenia, Presl., Notocarpia, Presl, Schizocagna, J. Smith.) 
Sori involucrate, globose ; the receptacles columnar or globose axillary at the forking of a vein, or medial ; lyivolucre membra- 
naceous, cup shaped at first globose and covering the sorus opening in a circumscissile manner near the apex, the cup remaining entire ■ 
or the cup bursting unequally ; or sometimes opening vertically in 4—6 nearly equal spreading divisions. Veins (in the ultimate divi- 
sions) simple forked, parallel-forked or pinnate, from a central costa ; venules free. 
Fronds large, herbaceous, simple, pinnate, bi-pinnate or decompound. Trunk or caudex arborescent— (Moore.) 
1. Cyathea spimdosa (Wall.) stipes and lower part of the rachis much and strongly aculeated, fronds bi-pinnate, flaccid and mem- 
branaceous, pinnules sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid, segments oblong acute, serrulate, glabrous, with a few minute scattered deci- 
duous scales sometimes on the costa beneath (especially on the barren frond) sori close to the costa, copious, involucres globose membra- 
naceous, fragile, glossy, soon breaking down into a jagged irregular cup— ^oo^-. Sp. Fil. 1. 2b~Wall. in Herb. 1823 Cat. n. 178. 
Shevagherry hills— Mr. Moore gives the Nilgiris as a locality, but I have never yet met with it on those hills. 
PLATE No. LVII. 
§ 2. ALSOPHILEiE. 
Alsophila, R. Broivn, Prod. Fl. Holl. 158. 
(Dicranophlebia, Martins ; Haplophlebia, Martins ; Trichopteris, Presl. ; Chnoophora, Kaulfuss ; Gymnosphoera, Blume ; Tricho- 
st$gia, /. Smith; Hymenostegia, /. Smith (in part) ; Dichorexia, Presl. ; Lophosoria, Presl. ; Trichosorus, Kunze ; Polypodii, Sp. auctorum). 
