Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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tripinnatifid ; main rachis with a broad crisped wing ; lower pinnae 

 1^—2 inches long, triangular-rhomboidal, erect-patent, divided 

 down to a narrow crisped centre into several plane or slightly crisped 

 pinnules on both sides, the lower of which are several times deeply 

 pinnatifid ; sori 6-20 to a pinna, terminal and axillary on the seg- 

 ments on both sides ; involucre about as broad as the segments, 

 divided down nearly to the base ; valves orbicular, entire, or denticu- 

 late. Spre/ig. Syst. iv. 132. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 60. H. crispatum 

 (Wall.), Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 207. 



Himalayas, Nepal, and Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 

 3,500-5,500 feet; "Western Ghats of the Madras Presidency; 

 Ceylon, central provinces ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Bourbon, and the 

 Philippines.) 



Var. /3 badium. {Hook, and Grev.) Frond hardly or not 

 at all crisped. H. badium, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 60. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 282. 



Sikkiin, Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim on the Mooleyit Moun- 

 tain. 



6. Hvmexophvllum ciliatum. (Sw.) Stipe 1-2 inches long, 

 furnished with tufts of stellate hairs, decurrently winged above ; wing 

 ciliate ; frond oblong, acuminate, tripinnatifid, 2-0 inches long, 1-2 

 inches broad at the centre; main rachis broadly winged throughout 

 ciliated and hairy like the stipe ; lower pinnae oblong or rhom- 

 boidal, with a broad central undivided portion, and numerous erect- 

 patent simple or forked ciliated linear segments 2-3 lines long ; sori 

 2-12 on a pinna, placed at the end of the lateral segments on both 

 sides, involucre immersed suborbicular ; valves divided about half- 

 way down, and conspicuously ciliated. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 63. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 305. 



Sikkim. 



(Also in tropical America from Cuba and Mexico to Chili and 

 South Brazil ; Tropical Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, Bourbon, 

 Seychelles and Johanna Island; New Zealand.; 



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