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slender, glossy, stramineous, the base very tomentose with a few 
sparse scales partly subterraneous, attached to the caudex by a small 
point ; fronds thin, membranaceous pale-green, glabrous, subpuber- 
ulous on the veins, 6-9 inches long, quite as broad as long, cordate- 
deltoid, subternate or pinnated with 3-9 subfalcate pinnae, lateral 
ones nearly opposite, petiolate, lowest pair half ovate, acuminate, 
4-6 inches long, lobate-pinnatifid, 1;.hose of the superior margin with 
broad ovate nearly equal subdenticulate blunt lobes, the inferior 
ones much elongated and acuminated, the basal ones again lobate 
pinnatifid, intermediate pinnae ovate- lanceolate, pinnatifid, terminal 
pinna long petiolate, broad-ovate 
acuminate, deeply pinnatifid 
especially at the base ; veinlets 
uniformly reticulated, areoles 
with no included free veinlets, 
costular areoles large ; sori rather 
irregularly scattered, dorsal or 
compital. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 104. 
Bed, R B. Lt. 4. 
Moulmein ; very like small 
specimens of Aspidium cicatarium 
in habit and outline, but there 
are no free veins, and the sori 
are more scattered and larger, 
and show no signs of an in- 
dusium. 
3. DicTYOPTERis CHATTAGRAMiCA. (^Clarke.) Rhizome short, 
stout; stipes 10-12 inches long, tufted, long, black with small scales 
near the base; fronds deltoid, distinctly dimorphic, pinnate below, 
pinnatifid upwards about 10-12 inches long by 6-7 inches broad, 
lower pinnae deltoid with the lower basal lobes much enlarged, mar- 
gins pinnatifid, surfaces pubescent, the margin with minute golden 
multicellular hairs;- sori naked, medial or terminal on the veins. 
Clarke, F. N. I. p. 548, ^.81. 
Chittagong at no elevation, very general. 
N°I54.. 
])1CTY0PTERIS BARBERI. {Hook.) 
