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PLEOPELT IS nupa. 
Glabrous scaly-Fern. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES.—Nar. Orp. FILICES, Div. Gyrara, Br. 
- Gen. Cuar.—Sori subrotundi, dorsales. Involucra plura in quolibet soro, 
orbicularia, peltata—Kunth, in Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. Gen. 
Pleopeltis nuda; frondibus indivisis lineari-lanceolatis rigidis nudis 
(squamulis nullis) basi apiceque attenuatis. 
‘Caudex and roots as in P. ensifolia. Fronds numerous, from 6 to 10 inches 
high, linear-lanceolate, rigid, coriaceous, entire, slightly waved at the 
margin, the base attenuated into a very short stipes, scarcely more than 
half an inch in length, the extremity tapering gradually into a long nar- 
row point, destitute of scales on both its sides. 
— Clusters of fructification forming a line on each side of the midrib, and ge- 
nerally reaching more than half-way down the frond, but not attaining 
nearly to its summit, roundish-oval, prominent even when covered. with 
the involucres, and becoming remarkably so in age. Involucres nume- 
rous, small, membranaceous, reticulated, peltate, their margins bluntly 
toothed, dark brown, paler at the edges. _ 
Capsules and seeds similar to those of P. ensifolia. — é 
An inhabitant of Nepaul, communicated to me thence by 
my valued friend Dr WALLICH, and unquestionably much al- 
lied to Pleopeltis ensifolia, differing from it, however, in its 
longer, narrower, and, at the extremity, singularly attenuated, 
Fig. 1. Portion of a frond, with a cluster of Involaess F 
of the scale of an involucre, with its capsules. Fig. 
involucre. Fig. 4. Capsule and seeds.—All 
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