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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Parish in Hook. 2 Cent. Ferns, t. 1. 

 F B. I. t. 303. 



Moulmein and Pegue, on trees. 



Hook. Syn. Fil. p 75. Bedd. 



5. Trichomanes muscoides. (Sw.) Frond stalked, 1-3 inches 

 long, by i— §■ inch broad, linear-oblong to suborbicular, entire or 



variously lobed, 

 spuiious venules 

 copious ; sori 

 1-8, terminal on 

 the lobes, the 

 tube sunk in the 

 frond, the mouth 

 free, dilated, but 

 usually scarcely 

 two-lipped. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 p. 75. Bedd. F 

 B. I. t. 304. 



Northern In- 

 dia ( received 

 from Dyas) ; 

 Khasya. 



(Also in tro- 

 pical America 

 and Africa, Poly- 

 nesia, &c.) 



Mr. Clarke 



trichomanes parvulum. states that the 



i-Poir.) typical form is 



not found in Northern India, but only the variety sublimba- 

 tum, distinguished by having no trace of a marginal band, but in 

 Griffith's specimen collected on the Khasya hills, this marginal band 

 is more or less present in some fronds, and I do not think it can 

 be separated as a ^variety. This species, as I understand it, is not 



N°I3. 



