Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 153 



opaque ; veins once or twice forked ; sori not reaching either midrib 

 or margin, often quite allantodioid in South Indian examples. 

 Lam. Enc. ii. 305. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 210, under resectum. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 132, under resectum. 



Madras Presidency, in all the Western forests up to 5,000 feet ; 

 Himalayas from Chumba to Bhotan 1,000-5,000 feet ; common 

 eastward of Nepal ; Chittagong; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Inlands, Polynesia, Japan and Tropical 

 Africa.) 



Var. p rivale. (Bedd.) Pinna? 30-40 pairs, close set and 

 much smaller than in the type, being only ^ inch broad, less cut 

 and almost a parallelogram in shape ; sori confined to the apex ; in 

 habit resembling normale, var. j3. 



Pulney Hills and Anamallays, only in beds of rivers. 



Var. y. udum. (Atkinson.) Pinnae very transparent and mem- 

 branaceous, smaller than in the type, very oblique, and the cutting 

 often fimbriate. (Bedd. Sufip. Ferns, t. 357, as var. decurrens.) 



Himalayas; Dalhousie, 5,500 feet elevation, and other localities, 

 pendant from dripping rocks. 



Var. Z delicatulum. (Parish.) Fronds and pinnae, much 

 smaller than in the type, the latter less obliquely cut away on the 

 lower side, and the main vein further from the margin. Bedd. Supp. 

 Ferns, t. 358. 



Tenasserim, on trees, 3,000 feet elevation. I have only seen 

 one specimen sent by Mr. Parish. 



24. Asplenium heterocarpum. (Wall.) Stipes scattered, 

 firm, erect chestnut coloured, polished ; fronds up to 2 feet, of which 

 the stipe is 6-8 inches, membranaceous, glabrous, linear in outline, 

 pinna; numerous (40 or more), dimidiate, nearly the whole of the 

 lower margin being cut away, about 1 inch long by \ inch broad ; 

 upper margin and apex deeply cut, the segments being again bifid ; 

 lower matgin entire ; sori confined to the segments and directed up- 

 wards. Wall. Cat. 218. JIooh.Syn.Fil.p. 210. Bedd. F. S. I. t. i 3 r. 



Madras Presidency, not uncommon in the Western forests, 

 4,000-7,000 feet elevation ; Himalayas from Nepal to Bhotan, 



