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1, Cheilanthes tenuifolia. (Sw). Caudex sliort, creeping scaly, stipes elongated rarely scaly, frond sub-raembranaceous glab- 
rous 3-4 inches to a span and more long, ovate acuminate or more or less deltoid sub-tri-pinnate, ultimate lobes of the primary and 
secondary divisions the largest more or less pinnatifid, pinnules elliptic, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate sub-pinnatifid or crenate with broad 
blunt teeth, involucres mostly elongated more or less confluent, more or less crenated or denticulate, sometimes transversely wrinkled, 
stipes and rachis purple-black, main rachis winged above, secondary and tertiary rachises all with a narrow wing. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 
82 -y—Sw. Si/n. Fil., pp. 129 and 332 C. rupestris, Wall. Cat. n. 67 C. micrantha. Wall. Cat. n, 68 Aspidiuni tenue, Retz. Obs. 
vi, 2). 39 ; — Pteris humilis, Foist. Prod, n. 421 ; — Trichomanes tenuifolia, Burn. Ind,, p. 237 j— Dryopteris Campestris, Rumph, Avib. v, 
77, t. 34 and 2. 
A common fern in dry localities all over the Presidency, it is not found at any great elevation. 
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