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too. Rocky crevices exposed, 7— S.00Q ft. Simla to Kumaon 
Sikkim. 
***** Fronds ample (18 in. or more l, 12 in hr.) decompound , 
Involucre often small and fugacious. 
-f- Text, herbaceous (or subcoriaceus.) 
Sori submarginal. 
'22. St. 1 ft. or more, tufted slender glossy; basal scales dark 
brown lin. ; fr. deltoid, 1—3 ft. 1. 9 — 18 in b., lower pin. often 1 ft. 1. 
with centre uncut for \ i in. bluntly lobed or with similar pinfid 
pinnl. ; rach. and surfaces nearly naked, text. pap. herbaceous ; 
colour bright green ; sori copious. dissectum , 
M embrani folium. Presl. 
Loc. Chittagong, Sylhet, Bhotan, Khasia, Assam. Bedd 
F. S. 1. 102. 
Sori near midrib (23-26.) 
23, St stout, polished, chestnut or blackish, scaly; lower 
pin , 1 ft: 1:, 6 in br„ close lane, pinnl. blunt, unequal-sided, a 
broad centre uncut ; text, ooriaceaus: rach. chestnut brown sori in 
rows ; splendens , 
Loc. Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, Bedd F. B. I, 42. 
24. St. stram, or brown, scaly: lower pin ; 12 — 18 in 1, 
G in br., pinnl. cut to a winged rach. iuto blunt toothed lobes > text 
herb.; sori in roivs. Boryanum , 
Loc. Simla to Kumaon ta 7000 ft, Khasia to Assam. 
25 St. stout, clothed at base (and rach 1 ) with light-brown silk; 
fibrils, fr. subdeltoid, lower pin. lane, often 12 in 1. 4 — 5 in 
br. pinnl close with distinct segm. and subentire lobes : 
text, firm ; sori small copious (Invol. fugacious). Intermedium. 
Loc. North India. 
26. St. and rach. bristly with dark brown scales : fr. 
deltoid. 3 — 4 pinfid, lower p\n. largest, subdeltoid, unequal-sided ; 
pinnl. cuneate at base below : ult. lobes obi. blunt: text 111011 . firm, 
surf, glabrous. (Invol. persistent). pulvinuliferum , 
Loc. East Himalayas, Bedd, F. B.. I., 333, 
Sori medial, 27. 
