Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 41 



at the apex of the lobes, tube almost entirely exserted, only the base 

 being sunk in the margin of the frond, the mouth dilated. Kuhn, 

 Lin. 35, p. 3S9. T. pusillum, Bedd. F B. I. t. 302. (Not of 

 Swartz.) 



Moulmein. 



11. Trichomanes intramarginale. {Hook and Grev.) Rhi- 

 zome slender, creeping, tomentose ; stipe short ; frond 1-2 inches 

 long, \-\ inch broad, tapering below, erect pinnatifid, central portion 

 1 line broad, segments few, erect, simple, forked or pinnate, sub- 

 coriaceous, opaque, the apices retuse, a central costa only in each 

 segment, but the margin thickened ; involucres 1-4 to a frond, sub- 

 cylindric, tapering at the base, sunk entirely in the apex of the 

 segments ; receptacles protruding. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 79. Bedd. F. 

 S. I. t. 208. 



Sivagiri Hills (Tinnevelly district) ; Malabar plains, foot of the 

 Bhagamandal Ghat, which descends from Coorg; Ceylon, in the 

 Ambagamwa district. 



12. Trichomanes pallidum. (Blitme.) Rhizome creeping, 

 slender, tomentose ; stipe 1-3 inches long, wiry, slender ; fronds 2-6 

 inches long by 1— i-J inch broad, ovate to lanceolate bipinnatihd, 

 divided down to a narrowly winged rachis, glauco-fuscous when dry, 

 primary divisions broad-lanceolate, the segments all acute-linear, 

 simple or forked ; veins broad and few ; sori 1-4 to a pinna, super- 

 axillary on short segments partially sunk, short cylindrical, attenuated 

 at the base, the mouth broad-spreading, but scarcely two-lipped. 

 Blume Hook. Syn. Fil. p. So. T. glauco-fuscum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 1, 

 p. 128. Bedd. F S. I. t. 263. 



Ceylon, Ambagamwa district ; Penang. 



(Also in the Pacific Islands, and the Philippines ) 



13. Trichomanes bipunctatum. (Poir.) Rhizome wide- 

 >ing, tomentose, rather slender, stipes 1-2 inches long, naked 



slightly winged above; frond 1 .| inches long, 1 \ 2 inches broad, 



