Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 151 



Localities much the same as falcatum. Mr. Clarke sa}S not 

 in Ceylon, but I have gathered many specimens there. 



19. Asplenium caudatum. (Foist.) As in falcatum, but the 

 sori generally confined to two parallel rows close to the midrib, or 

 with a few other short oblique sori. Foist Prod. p. 80. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 209. Aspl. contiguum, Bedd. F.S. I. t. 140. Probably only 

 a variety of falcatum. 



S. India, on the Western mountains; Ceylon; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in Australia, Africa, and Brazil.) 



20. Asplenium Gardneri. (Baker.) Rhizome short, creep- 

 ing; stipes grey, 2-6 inches with a few scattered small scales ; fronds 

 lanceolate, \— 1 foot long, 3-5 inches broad, often gemmiparous ; 

 rachis not winged ; pinnae 8-10 pair, distinct, ascending, lanceolate, 

 short-stalked, acute, central ones 2-3 inches long \— § inch broad, 

 toothed, square on the upper side, cuneate on the lower side at the base ; 

 veins erect-patent, forked, moderately close ; sori regular, parallel, 

 \-\ inch long. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 485. Bedd. Suppl. Ferns, t. 355. 



Closely allied to macrophyllum, and probably only a variety of 

 it. I have specimens from North India (not gemmiparous), which I 

 do not know whether to refer to this or to macrophyllum. My Ceylon 

 specimens are all gemmiparous, and the texture is generally thinner 

 and the veins further apart. 



Ceylon ; Khasya Mountains, Umwai, 3,000 feet elevation. 



21. Asplenium paradoxum. (Blume.) Stipe firm, erect, grey, 

 slightly scaly ; fronds 1-2 feet long, with a large oblong-rhomboidal 

 terminal pinna, and 8-12 lateral ones on each side, the lowest of 

 which are 5-6 inches long, 'i—i-| inches broad, the apex acuminate 

 and slightly toothed, the two sides unequal, the upper one narrowed 

 suddenly almost at a right angle, the lower obliquely cuneate; 

 texture coriaceous ; rachis firm, erect, compressed, rather scaly ; 

 veins obscure, very oblique, usually once forked ; sori reaching nearly 

 from the midrib to the margin. Bl. Fil.Jav. 179. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 

 209. Aspl. zamioides, Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. />■ 114. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 193. 



Penang. The < omprtssed rachis and short broader almost entire 



