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4. Leucostegia ASSAMiCA. {Bedd. under Acrophorus.) Rhizome 
creeping, covered with numerous imbricated chaffy golden, ovate- 
acute scales ; fronds glabrous, shining, 8-14 inches long (including 
the stipe, which is 2-3 inches), 2-3 inches broad, subcoriaceous 
lanceolate, pinnate with the primary pinnse alternate or opposite, 
pinnatifid almost to the rachis, lower ones petiolate, upper ones 
decurrent so as to form a regular wing to the rachis, pinnules 
pinnatifid, segments toothed, each tearing one sorus, veins 
terminating within the margin; 
involucres as in the genus, as 
broad as deep. Bedd. F. B. 
I. t. 94. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 467. 
Bhotan, Mishmee, and by 
the Dihong. 
5. Leucostegia immersa. 
( Wall) Rhizome creeping stout, 
fibrillose ; stipe 4-8 inches long, 
strong, erect; fronds 12-18 
inches long, 6-9 inches broad, 
deltoid, tripinnate, glabrous ; 
lowest pinnule lanceolate and 
deltoid, 2-3 inches long, i inch 
broad, with broad segments, 
which are obliquely truncate 
at the base below, and roundly 
lobed with the lobes again crenate above ; texture herbaceous ; 
sori large, impressed, clearly visible from the upper side, 1-6 to a 
segment, oblique ; involucre broader than long. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 91. 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 11. 
Madras Presidency on the Western mountains ; very abundant in 
Coorg, growing on trees. Himalayas, from Mussorrie to Bhotan, 
3,000-6,000 feet. Sikkim, Khasya, Parasnath, and the Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in Java.) 
LEUCOSTEGIA ASSAMICA. {Bedd.) 
