144 Ferns of British India and Ckylon. 



broadest and narrowed suddenly at the base ; texture sub-coriaceous ; 

 veins pinnate, inconspicuous ; rachis polished ; sori linear oblong, 

 3-6 on each side of the midrib. L. Sp. Fil. p. 1540^7. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 196, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 147, 



Kulhatty on the Nilgiris ; Himalayas, Kashmir to Kumaon, 

 5,000- t.o,ooo feet elevation. 



(Also in all four quarters of the world, Australia and Polynesia.) 



6. Asplenium normale. (Don.) Stipes 4-6 inches long, 

 tufted, wiry, dark purple, polished; fronds 8-15 inches long, \\ inch 

 broad, with very numerous close placed pinnae, the lower ones, which 

 are f-i inch long, \ inch broad, deflexed ; the apex obtuse, the edge 

 incised-crenate, the upper side auricled and nai rowed suddenly at 

 the base, the lower truncate in a straight line ; texture sub-coriaceous; 

 rachis glossy ; veins mostly once forked ; sori in two rows, very various 

 in direction, some at right angles with the veins, some parallel with 

 them, or in one row, or only 1-2 to each pinna. Don. Prod. Fl. 

 Nep. p. 7. EoJi. Syn. Fd. p. 197. Asplenium multijugum (Wall), 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 133. 



Madras Presidency, in the forests of the Western mountains, 

 3,000-6,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon, above 4,000 feet elevation 

 Himalayas from Nepal to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 3,000- 

 5,000 feet. Mr. Clarke says some forms are nearly allied to A. 

 Trichomanes, others to monanthemum, a Madeira fern ; Hima- 

 la)an examples are much more variable than those from South India. 



(Also in Canton.) 



Var. (3. Pinnae more numerous and overlapping each other, 

 more regular in shape, forming almost parallelograms ; sori 1-6, 

 generally confined to the apex, and parallel with the veins, one sorus 

 on the upper auricle close to the rachis and parallel with it. 



Anamallays, 4,000 feet elevation. 



7. Asplenium subavenium. (Hook) Stipes tufted, 2-3 inches 

 long, wiry, blackish, densely fibrillose ; frond a span long, lanceolate 

 coriaceous, very opaque, pinnated ; pinnae f of an inch long, 



