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reddish linear-lanceolate scales at the base ; fronds up to 3 feet, 
oblong-lanceolate, generally 2-pinnate, or in some forms only pinnate; 
slightly narrowed, never attenuated at the base, coriaceous, rigid, 
somewhat shining, striated when dry ; primary pinnae often falcate, 
sometimes only pinnatifid half-way to the rachis, ii-2 inches long, 
generally much larger ; 2-4-I inches long, and pinnate, the pinnules 
more or less hastate from one or both of the basal lobes being en- 
larged or auricled, sub-entire to pinnatifid, and often sharply 
serrated, particularly at the apex; indusium small, fugacious or 
wanting. Hook. Syn. Fil. 228. Bcdd. F. B. I. 
The exinvolucrate variety, called 
Kulhaitense by Clarke, is eberneum. 
(Wall.) It only differs in the absence 
of the involucre ; the i -pinnate 
form with short pinnae looks different 
at first sight, but gradually runs 
into the larger and more compound 
forms. 
Himalayas, from Gurwhal to 
Bhotan, 4,000-11,000 feet; Khasya 
3,000-11,000 feet. I do not feel 
certain that the Khasya specimen 
called stramineum J. Sm. really be- 
longs here, though it is so sorted in 
the Kew bundles; it is very like 
some of the Nilgiris forms of Athy- 
rium selenopteris. 
12. Athyrium BREVisoRUM. {Wall) Stipes I i foot and more 
long stramineous-brown below, glossy ; fronds 1^-2 feet long, ovate- 
lanceolate, membranaceous, bi-tripinnate ; primary pinnae long-petio- 
late remote erect-patent, a foot and more long, broad-lanceolate, 
acuminate ; secondary pinnae 5-6 inches long, lanceolate, nearly 
sessile, pinnated; pinnules numerous, approximate, oblong-lanceolate, 
much acuminate, horizontally patent, i-i^ inch long, coarsely 
serrated, rarely subpinnatifid, the serratures very acute, almost 
ATHYRIUxM BREVISORUM. {Wall.) 
