576 MR. C. B. CLARKE ON THE FERNS OF NORTHERN INDIA. 
bolus nummulariefolius, Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. t. 186, has the surface of the fronds 
with stellate hairs, and the scales of the rhizome quite unlike the Bengal plant, and is 
Drymoglossum Beddomei, nov. sp. 
4l. Hever, Linn. 
1. H. Apmota, Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. Suppl. p. 25. Rhizome very short ; fertile stipes 
much longer than the cordate entire fronds.— H. cordifolia, Roxb., Wall. Cat. 
44, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 500. .H.cordaía, Hk. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 64; Hook. 
Sp. Fil. v. 192; Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. t. 53; Hk. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 398. H. 
sagittata, Fée, Gen. Fil. 172, t. 14D. H hastata, R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 2170. 
Asplenium arifolium, Burm. Fl. Ind. 231; Rheede, Hort. Mal. xii. t. 10. 
East Bengal Plain ; abundant on red laterite. Also on the southern margin of Behar. 
—Distrib. South India, Ceylon, Philippines. 
2. H. Grirriran, H. f. & T.; Hook. Sp. Fil. 192. Rhizome shortly creeping ; stipes 
paleaceous and coarsely hirsute ; fronds hairy, pinnate or pinnatifid —Hk. & Baker, 
Syn. Fil. 399. H. Wilfordii, Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 93., Dictyocline Griffithii, Moore; 
. Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. t. 155. 
Khasia; alt. 4000-5000 feet, local but in large quantity, as in the woods about the 
Poonjee at Cherra.—Distrib. Formosa. 
The fronds from young rhizomes are pinnatifid, usually barren; those from strong 
rhizomes pinnate, both barren and fertile. | 
Pinnz with parallel main lateral veins which are ege, without sori, but sometimes 
soriferous in the upper part of the same frond: veins completely inarching into many 
rows of subhexagonal areole. 
42. ACROSTICHUM, Linn. 
Subgenus I. Elaphoglossum. Veins free. Fronds simple, coriaceous. 
1, A. CONFORME, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 10, 192, t. 1. fig. 1. Scales of the rhizome ovate- ` ` 
lanceolate, not hair-pointed; stipes often squamose, not hairy.—Blume, Fl. Jav : 
Fil. 23, 1.5; Fée, 2™ Mém. Foug. 80; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 198; Hk. & Baker, Sy: — 
Fil. 401 ; Benth. FL Austral vii. 778. A. laurifolium, Thouars; Fée, 2™° Mém. ` 
Foug. 37, t. 7. fig. 1. 4. Gayanum, Fée, Ze: Mém. Foug. 37, t. 19: fig. 2. 4. glan- ` 
dulosum, Hk. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 3. 4. marginatum, Wall. Cat. 17; Fée, 2" Mém. ` 
Foug. 31. 4. angulatum, Blume, Fl. Jav. Fil. 25, t. 6; Fée, 2^ Mém. Foug. 52- 
A. gorgoneum, Blume, Fl. Jav. Fil. 28, t. 8; Fée, 2™ Mém. Foug. 38. Elapho- ` 
glossum conforme and laurifoliwn, Bedd. Ferns South. Ind. tt. 198, 200. ! 
Sikkim and Nepaul; alt. 6000-9000 feet, frequent. Khasia, alt. 4500-6000 feet, 
rather common.—Distrib. South India, Ceylon, Malaya, EE pug Ke 
and Rrenihern Africa and America. ues 
