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cum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 335; Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 225. P. pothifolium, 
Mett. Farngatt. Polypod. 108, t. 3. figs. 22-24. , Hemionitis pothifolia, Don, Prodr. 
Fl. Nep. 18. Grammitis decurrens, Wall. Cat. 5. G. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 
776. Selliguiea decurrens, Presl; Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 150. 
From Nepaul to Bhotan and Khasia, alt. 2000-5000 feet, very common.-—Distrib. 
Burma, China, Philippines, Japan. 
. Very variable in development ; large specimens are 1-pinnate, with the pinne distant, 
113 by ŝ in.; other specimens are subpalmately divided into 3-5 short lobes ; and I have 
an example (in full fruit) quite simple. I believe it is all one.—The Hongkong example 
is dimorphie; the fertile frond reduced, with narrow pinne. 
35. BRAINEA, Hook. 
I. B. insignis, Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. ix. 354, Sp. Fil. v. 162; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 460; 
Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 189; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 390; Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. 
Burma, ii. 574. Bowringia insignis, Hook. Kew Gard. Misc. v. 287, t. 2, Fil. 
Exot. t. 38. 
- Khasia, alt. 3000-4000 feet ; Pomrang, Hook. f. $ T. Thoms; Jainka, Col. Godwin- 
Austen.—Distrib. Hongkong. 
36. Meniscium, Schreb. 
l. M. TRIPAYLLUM, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 19, 206. Rhizome creeping, with chestnut lanceo- 
late-linear scales at the extremities; frond with 1-9 pinne; pinne narrowed at 
the base, villose beneath; secondary venation not prominent.— Wall. Cat. 61; Hk. 
& Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 120; Kunze, Farnkr. Schk. Suppl. t. 52 ; Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. 
t. 56; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 391. M. erosum, Wall. Cat. 62. M. Cumingii, Fée, 
. Gen. Fil. 222. JM. Parishii, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 184. a 
- Eastern Bengal, alt. 0-500 feet, from Mishmee and Cachar to Chittagong, where it is 
plentiful. Sikkim Terai; Dulkajhar, Gamble.—Distrib. Ceylon, Burma, China, Philip- 
pines, Malacca. 
. M. simplex, Hook., has the fronds less divided, more cordate at the base, the secondary 
venation raised beneath, prominent, but seems very near.—Jf. Parishit, Bedd., is referred 
in Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 392, to M. cuspidatum, Blume; but it is exactly our common 
form of M. triphyllum in the Chittagong Hills. An example collected in Mishmee by 
Griffith has 13 pinne in all, and is marked M. villosum, J. Smith in Herb. 
2. M. CUSPIDATUM, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. Fil. 114, Fl Jay. Fil. 102, t. 45. Frond 
l-pinnate ; pinns 3-6 in., pubescent or nearly glabrous except the mg e 
narrowly oblong, acuminate caudate, drying blackish, margin often crenulate.— 
Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 309; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 392. 
Jaintea; Jowye, alt. 4000 feet, C. B. Clarke. Sylhet, alt. 250 feet, C. B. Clarke— 
Distrib. Java, Philippines. tae 
- l ipe no difficulty in distinguishing this from P. urophyllum, Wall. (as seen under 
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