150 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



i 6. Asplenium crinicaule. (Ilance.) Stipes furnished with 

 hair-like scales, densely tufted, 3-4 inches long, erect, dark-brown ■ 

 fronds 6 inches to 2-3 feet long, 1I-4I inches broad; pinnae 9-25 

 pairs, opposite, sub-opposite or alternate, lanceolate, sub-falcate, with 

 a blunt or acuminated apex, the margins deeply incised, often the 

 upper base and sometimes both the upper and lower base much 

 auricled, giving the pinna a hastate shape, the lower base often 

 obliquely truncate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis firm, fibrillose like 

 the stipes ; midrib rather indistinct ; veins subflabellate ; sori linear 

 oblique. Hance, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. v. 254. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 

 208. Asp. Beddomei, Mett in Linncza, 36, 93. Aspl. falcatum, 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 141. 



Madras Presidency, on the Anamallays and in Coorg, 3,000- 

 4,000 feet elevation ; Sikkim, Jaintea hills 4,000-5,000 feet, nearly 

 allied to the next species, and probably only a variety of it. 



(Also in China ) 



17. Asplenium falcatum. (Lam.) Stipes tufted, 6-9 inches 

 long, erect, greyish, glabrous, or more or less scaly ; fronds 6 inches 

 to 2 feet long or more, 4-8 inches broad; pinnae stalked, 6-20 pair, 

 alternate, sub-opposite or opposite, lanceolate, often caudate, \-\ 

 inch broad, the edges serrated or lobed, with the lobes serrate, the 

 two sides unequa 1 , and the lower one at the base obliquely-truncate ; 

 texture coriaceous ; rachis glabrous or fibrillose ; veins very oblique ; 

 sori in long irregular lines reaching nearly to the margin. Lam.Enc. ii. 

 306. Hook. Syn. Fil. 20S. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 143, as caudatum. 



Madras Presidency, Western mountains ; Ceylon ; Malay Penin- 

 sula ; Soonderbun ; near Koolna in Jessore. 



(Also in Australia, S. Africa and its islands, and Polynesia.) 



18. Asplenium macrophyllum. (Swartz.) As in falcatum, 

 but the pinnce generally larger and broader, and less cut. Sw. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 77 and 261. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 209. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 142. 



Distinct enough from falcatum if typical specimens only are 

 viewed, but quite passing into it if large suites of specimens a) e ex- 

 amined, it should, I think, only rank as a variety. 



