130 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



fronds ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 feet long, 6-12 inches broad; pinna? 

 1 inch or more apart at the base, all stalked except towards the apex, 

 erect-patent, linear, 4-6 inches long, J-| inch broad, narrowed at the 

 base on both sides, and at the apex, where it is toothed ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous ; veins prominent ; fertile fronds similar, but the pinnae 

 more distant and narrowly linear ; rachis erect naked. Kze. in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1848,/. 521. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 183. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 165. 



Nepal, Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet. 



(Also in Japan and N. Australia.) 



TRIBE VII.— ELECHNE^E. 



Sori linear or oblong dorsal, parallel with the midrib and edge 

 of the segments, not close to the latter ; indusium the same shape as 

 the sorus, superior, opening towards the midrib. 



GENUS XXXV.— BLECHNUM. (Z.) 

 (One of the Greek names for a fern.) 



Sori linear, continuous, or nearly so, parallel with and usually 

 contiguous to the midrib ; indusium membranous, distinct from the 

 edge of the frond ; fronds uniform or only slightly dimorphous, 

 generally pinnate or pinnatifid ; veins free. 



1. Blechnum cartilagineum. (Sivartz.) Caudex oblique, 

 densely clothed at the crown with blackish fibrillose scales ; stipes 

 strong erect scaly and muricated in the lower part; fronds ovate- 

 oblong, 1-2 feet long, 6-9 inches broad, pinnatifid and pinnate 

 towards the base ; pinna? numerous erect-patent linear, 4-6 inches 

 long, \-\ inch broad, narrowed gradually upwards, margin ser- 

 rulate ; the lowest pinna? linear distant, narrower than those above, 

 but not reduced to mere auricles. Sw. Syn. Fil. 114 and 312. 

 Clarke, F. A r . I. p. 473. Hook. Syn. Fil. 184. 



Mishmee. — Mr. Clarke refers Griffith's solitary specimen to this 

 species, which is Australian. Hooker referred it to nitidum, an 



