Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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Khasya hills, about Cherra Poonjee, 4,000-5,000 feet ; Bhotan, 

 Birma, Moulmein mountains, 7,000 feet. 

 (Also in Java.) 



Var. p flaccidum. Main rachis often with much ferru- 

 ginous hair beneath ; fronds flaccid, hardly at all crisped, ultimate 

 segments slightly serrulate in their upper portion only, the main 

 rachis quite entire, valves of the involucre slightly serrulate at the 

 summit. H. Khasianum, ffjok, Syn. Ml. p. 464. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 276. Clarke, I. c, p. 438. 



Khasya Hills, growing with the type. Mr. Clarke, who has seen 

 it growing, considers it only a variety of denticulatum. 



IO. HVMENOPHYLLUM 



Neesii. (Rook.) Stipe 

 2-1 inches long, naked, 

 or slightly winged, with 

 a crispate margin on both 

 sides; frond ovate, about 

 2 inches long, f-i inch 

 b r oad, tripinnatifid ; ra- 

 chis winged throughout, 

 the wing and pinnae 

 much crisped ; pinnae 

 with distant, narrow, sim- 

 ple or 1-3 times deeply 

 forked, deeply toothed 

 segments; sori small, 

 usually single, supra- 

 axillary on the upper 



ri?i7. 



HYMENOJ HYLLUM NEF.SII. 



{Hook.) 



; involucre subcylindrical below, divided more than half-way 

 down, with two acute spinulose-dcntatc valves. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 p. 71. Btdd. F. S. I. t. 279. Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, 

 Bedd. F. S. / /. 265. 



