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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



a right angle, the lower one obliquely truncate ; lower pinnte often 

 deflexed ; texture herbaceous ; veins simple or once forked ; sori 

 falling short of both edge and midrib. Sw. Syn. Fil. 80. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. 202. Asplenium erectum, Bory. 



Var. ft camptorachis. Fronds 12-14 inches long; rachis 

 winged; pinnae 30-40 pair, alternate or subopposite, about f inch 

 long, rounded at the apex, lower ones often reduced to auricles. As- 

 plenium camptorachis, Kze. Asplenium brasiliense (Raddi), Bedd. F. 

 S. I. t. 135. 



Western parts of the 

 Madras Presidency, Nilgi- 

 ris, &c, at high elevations ; 

 Ceylon, central provinces. 



VAR. y TRAPEZIFORME 



Fronds about 14-20 inches 

 long ; rachis not winged ; 

 pinna? about 15-20 pair, 

 the lowest the largest, ih 

 inches long ; apex attenuat- 

 ed. Aspl. trapeziforme 

 (Roxb.), Crypt, p. 497. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 134. 



Nilgiris and Anamal- 

 lays in Southern India. 



Unless a distinct species, 

 which it probably is, I con- 

 sider this a variety of lunu- 

 latum, and not of unilateral e 

 [resectuni), to which it is referred by Hooker and Clarke, as 

 the pinna are never unilateral. Mr. Clarke also alludes to it under 

 longifolium, as closely allied to that species, but it is nothing like it, 

 either in texture or cutting. 



13. Asplenium Zenkerianum. {Kze.) Stipes 6-9 inches long, 

 tufted, slightly scaly ; fronds oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 feet long, gene- 



N c 75. 



ASPLENIUM ZENKERIANUM. 



{Kze.) 



