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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Sylhet, abundant ; Malay Peninsula from Moulmein southwards. 

 (Also in Mauritius and the Malay Islands.) 



10. Asplenium Wightianum. (Wall.) Stipes tufted 6-9 

 inches long, green, naked ; fronds up to 2 feet long, 6-8 inches broad, 

 oblong-lanceolate with 6-12 subopposite or alternate pairs of pinnae 

 on each side, distinctly stalked, the lower ones rather distant, linear 

 with a long acumination, |-i inch broad, the base gradually 

 truncate-cuneate, often a little unequal, the margin coarsely toothed ; 

 colour pale green ; texture coriaceous or subcoriaceous ; veins 

 simple, or once forked ; sori very regular and parallel, not 



reaching the margin ; indu- 

 sium broad, pale. Wall. Cat. 

 2215. Hook. Syn. Fil. 199. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 126. A. 

 Vulcanicum (Blume), Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. 201. 



( 1 he sterile fronds are 

 rarely deeply and irregularly 

 pinnatiftd, with the segments 

 serrated?) 



Ceylon ; South Indian 

 mountains, Pulneys, Anamal- 

 lays, Bolampatty Hills, 2,000- 

 4,000 feet elevation ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



In South Indian exam- 

 ples the serratures are rather 

 deep and the veins generally 

 all simple, in a specimen from Birma the serratures are very shal- 

 low and sharp and the veins once forked. 

 (Also in the Malay Islands.) 



Var. ft microphyllum. Pinnae much smaller, with a more 

 unequal cuneate base, scarcely acuminated at the apex ; serratures 

 obtusely rounded, upper basal serratures larger than the others and 



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ASPLENIUM WIGHTIANUM. 



(Wall.) 



