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Cheilanthes (continued.) 
2. Cheilanthes varians, (Hooker.) Root tufted, stipites 4-6 inches long, slender, ebeneous glossy, plane and margined on the 
upper side, obsoletely setoso-paleaceous, fronds sub-membranaceous glabrous about a span long, the pinnatifid apex acuminated, pinnated 
above, bi-pinnate below ; primary pinnse distant, spreading or a little curved upwards sessile, superior ones lanceolate, acuminate sinuato- 
pinnatifid at their base, and somewhat auricled at the upper base, lower ones deltoid, acuminate pinnate at their base, pinnatifid acuminated 
(caudate) in the upper half, pinnules lanceolate acuminate or acute pinnatifid below, the lowest inferior pinnje the longest. Hooker Sp. 
Fit. ii, 89 Pteris varians, Wall. Cat. n. 86 ;— Fteris CJBspitosa, Ejusd. Cat. n. 90 Cheilanthes tenuifolia, /. Smith in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. iii, p. 404 ;— Ch. laxa, Moore. 
Anamallays— rare. 
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3. Cheilanthes Mjjsorensis, (Wallich.) Roots densely cajspitose, the fibres very woolly, stipites slightly scaly below, short 1-2 
inches and as well as the main rachises, deep glossy ebeneous rigid, frond a span or more long, in outline narrow oblong, acute, tapering 
b^low by the diminishing of the pinnse, glabrous membranaceous but firm, bi-pinnate lower pinnte very small, all of them oblong-ovate 
sessile, frequently opposite pinnate below, the upper half pinnatifid, pinnules or segments linear-oblong plane, (much incurved if dried 
without pressure) toothed or lobato -pinnatifid, each tooth or lobe bearing one or two sub-confiuent small whitish sub-orbicular sori. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. ii, p. 94 -—Wall. Cat. n. 66 Cheil. fragrans, Swartz Syn. Fil., p. 127. et 325, t. 3, /. 6 ;— Cheil. Swartzii, Wehh. tt 
Bert Phijtogr. Canar.,p. 454 in note ;—C\\. opposita, Kaulf. En. Fil, p. 211 ;— Asplenium Mysorense, Heijne in Roth. Nov. Sp. Ind. 
Or., p. 395? 
Common in dry rocky places on hill sides up to 3,000 or 4,000 feet. 
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4. Cheilanthes farinosa, (Kaulf.) Roots tufted, stipites more or less elongated, ebeneous glossy deciduously scaly, fronds sub-coria- 
ceous from a span to a foot long, deltoidly lanceolate, or lanceolate 'glabrous, white and powdery beneath, pinnate, the apex pinnatifid, 
acuminate, pinnae mostly lanceolate pinnatifid, the one or two lower most pair more or less half deltoid bi-pinnatifid below, involucres 
brown, scariose rounded, sometimes confluent and then waved or lobed, the margin entire or toothed and jagged. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii, 77 ; — 
Kaulf En. Fil., p. 212 Pteris farinosa, Forst. Fl. ^'jypt. Aral, p. 187 ;— Cheilanthes dealbata, Don. Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 16 ;— Pteris 
argyrophylla, Sw. Syn. Fil., p. 105 ; — Pt. argentea, Bory ; — Pt. decursiva, Forst et. Sw. ; — Cassebeera, /. Sm. ; — Allosorus, Presl. 
Nilgiris and other mountainous tracts in the Presidency very common ; called " the silver fern," — there'is a variety with the 
powder of a pale sulpJiur colour. 
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5. Cheilanthes bullosa, (Kunze.) Rhizome short, thick, obliquely descending, stipites 6-8 inches long, terete, asperous at the 
base, and as well as the rachis, and stout prominent partial rachis beneath, which extends to the apex of the pinnae, deep glossy 
ebeneous ; frond rigid, coriaceous glabrous (dark olive-brown when dry) oblong-lanceolate, opaque above, and there under the micros- 
cope as it were minutely granulated, pinnato-pinnatifid, 6-8 inches long, pinnce rather distant nearly opposite, the lower ones some- 
times sub-bi-pinnate, ovato-oblong, patent, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes linear crenate on the lowest inferior ones, often again pinnatifid, 
singularly buUate on the upper side, in consequence of the sunken costa, and veins (the spaces between them thus being convex) the 
primary lobes of the pinnag are rather distant, so that the pinnae may almost be said to be pinnate with a winged rachis, the margins of 
the lobes and teeth of the crenatures are much reflexed and form semi-orbicular involucres pale at the edge, which become united and 
more or less continuous and slightly erose at the margin, in age becoming more membranous. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii, 88 ; — Kunze in 
Lin. xxiv, /j. 274. 
I have no douht that the plant here figured is the ''Cheilanthes bullosa" of Kunze, hut I believe it to be only a mountain variety 
of " Ch. farinosa," it is always more or less white and powdery beneath. 
Nilgiris— very common, 
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