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(lowest pair sometimes bi-partite) the extremity long-caudate, the segments oblong, all-spinuloso-serrated in the sterile fronds, 
linear and entire, except at the sterile apex, in the fertile ones, veins simple and forked, involucres sub-intramarginal membranaceous often 
continued round the apex, stipes rather stout castaneous or purple-ebeneous very glossy. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 169 ; — Pt. flabellata Schkh ; 
— Pt. dimidiata. £1. Fil. Jav. p. 210. (not Willd J, 
Travancore hills — Tranquebar — rare. 
PLATE No. XXXIV. 
5. Pteris crenata, Sw. Sun- Fil. p. 96. 1^ to 2 feet and more high, caudex creeping scaly with long subulate rigid curved scales, 
fronds 6-8 inches to a foot and more long ovate or (fertile) lanceolate sub-membranaceous firm bi-pinnate, terminal pinnce much elongated 
often exceedingly long and caudate generally auriculate on each side at the base ; sterile pinnules oblong or obovate obtuse half an inch long 
coarsely serrated sessile very often confluent and more or less decurrent sharply serrated, veinlets simple or forked thickened at the apex, 
fertile pinnules linear more or less elongate often much acuminated, serrated at the sterile apex, indusium intramarginal occupying nearly 
the whole length of the pinnules : stipites slender smooth, stramineous short, in the sterile fronds much elongated. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 163. 
Pt, ensiformis— TFa//. Cat. n. 2481 ; and Pt. multiden, n. tata, 2681 Pt, caudata Loureiro Cochin p. 835— Pt. heterodactyla. Reinw. 
Cochin—Malabar Coast. Tranquebar. 
PLATE No. XXXV. (A fertile frond. A. the upper portion of a sterile one). 
6. Pteris Boivini, Moore, Cajspitose, a span to 2 feet high caudex nodose with copious wooly fibres fronds subtriangular-ovate 
bi-tripinnate glabrous, pinnae generally pinnate below and entire towards the apex, pinnules sessile or short petiolate elliptical or ovate with 
an unequal cordate base, very coriaceous opaque ; fertile ones entire except at the crenated sterile apex, sterile ones crenated. Veins internal 
quite obsolete forked and free — indusium sub-intraniarginal membranaceous continuous round the margin except at the very apex and base 
— stipes subflexnose stout and as well as the rachises jet black and furnished with tawny down — Pellosa Boivini. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 147. 
Anamallays, dry rocky places 4000 feet elevation. Nilgiris— abundant on the Sisparah ghat, dry places 3000 to 5000 feet eleva- 
tion. ( This fern has not been before recorded from the East Indies). 
PLATE No. XXXVI. 
