Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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bifid : fronds about 10 inches long by 2 inches broad. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 127. 



Anamallays ; banks of Toracadu and elsewhere. I believe this 

 to be only a form of Wightianum, though Mr. Baker is inclined to 

 regard it as a distinct species. 



11. Asplexium tenerum. (Forst.) Stipes tufted, firm, erect, 

 greyish, naked, 4-1 1 inches long; fronds 8-15 inches long, 3-4 

 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; pinnse numerous on each side, 

 stalked, horizontal, i-f inch broad, more or less bluntly rounded at 

 the apex, the edge rather deeply crenat- 

 ed all round, the two sides unequal, 

 the upper one narrowed, almost at a 

 right angle, sometimes auricled, the 

 lower one obliquely truncate ; texture 

 herbaceous ; rachis compressed ; veins 

 all simple except the lowest superior 

 one, which is always forked except 

 in the uppermost pinnae ; sori nume- 

 rous, regular, parallel, not reaching the 

 margin or midrib. Forst. Prod. p. 80. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 201. Asp. elonga- 

 tum (S\v.), Bedd. F. S. I. t. 224. 



Ceylon ; at Oodawella and Matale 

 East, not common. Mr. Wall sends 

 a specimen with most of tlie pinna; CkX' 

 pinnatifid in tJicir loiver half nearly 

 to the rachis. Singapore, Penang. 



(Also in the Philippines, Borneo, 



N°74 

 ASPLENIUM TENERUM. 



(Forst.) 



Java, Marianne Islands,Taheiti, and New Gumca. 



12. Asplenium luxui.atum. (Sui.) Stipes tufted, 2-4 inches 

 long, firm, nearly naked, grey or ebeneous ; fronds 8-18 inches long, 

 1J-3 inches broad, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, with many horizontal 

 pinnae on cadi side, which are ]-l inch broad, bluntish or acute 

 at the apex, more or less deeply crcnate throughout, the two 

 sides unequal, the upper one at the base narrowed suddenly at about 



