TAB. XII. 
Cheilanthes nitidula. 
Caudice brevi repente* stipitibus 2-5-uncialibus caespitosis 
rachibusque (supra puberulis) ebeneis squamis subulatis 
fuscis paleaceis deciduis hispidis* frondibus 3 — 4 y. 5-uncia- 
libus subdeltoideo-oblongis acuminatis (sterili latioribus) 
coriaceo-membranaceis pallide virentibus glabris pinnato- 
pinnatifidis inferne subbipinnatis* pinnis approximates ssepis- 
sime oppositis ovato-lanceolatis subdimidiatis (dimidio infe- 
riore latiore) profunde pinnatifidis usque ad rachin* infimis 
iterum subpinnatis* pinnis secundariis pinnatifidis* lobis 
oblongis integris vel sinuatis sensim acutis* involucris sub- 
intramarginalibus continuis raro interruptis latis planis 
membranaceis fuscis appressis ssepissime lobatis crenatisque 
transversim rugosis. 
Cheilantbes nitidula, Hook . Gen. et Sp. Fil. 2. p, 112. 
Pteris nitidula* Wall. Cat . n. 89. 
Allosorus nitidulus* Presl. 
Hab. Northern India. Kamaoun* Dr. Wallicli . Rocks* Simla, 
Dr. T. Thomson. Pundkester* N. India* Mr. Edgeworth . 
One of Dr. Wallich’s many Indian discoveries* made either 
by himself in Northern India* or through the medium of the 
many excellent collectors he was privileged to employ ; and 
whom he so successfully employed* especially in the search 
after Ferns* that very little of novelty has been left for suc- 
ceeding Botanists. In the arrangement of the Genus Cheil- 
anthes in the Genera and Species Filicum* we have placed this 
in the “ Pteridoideoe” group* having* as we there observed, 
nearly as strong a claim to be placed in Pteris or Allosorus as 
in Cheilanthes. Presl considers it an associate of Cryptogramma * 
Br., for he refers it to the section of his Allosorus , which in- 
cludes that genus ; erroneously we think. As a species it is 
very distinct. 
Fig. 1 . Upper side of a sterile pinna, f. 2. Under side of 
a fertile pinna ; magnified. 
