i54 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



4,000-8,000 feet; Khasya, 3,000-5,000 feet; Malay Peninsula; 

 Ceylon, central provinces, above 3,000 feet. 

 (Also in south-east China and Borneo.) 



25. Asplenium laciniatum. (Don.) Stipes and rachis with 

 lanceolate cr linear scales ; fronds linear, up to nearly 2 feet long ; 

 pint, as numerous, alternate or subopposite, linear-oblong or half 

 ovate, very much cut away, and unequal at the base, slightly pin- 

 natifid. with the segments serrated, or more or less deeply pinnatifid 

 nearly to the rachis and the segments distant ; texture subcoriaceous; 

 veins very oblique ; sori copious. Don. Prod. FL Kef. p. 8. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 211. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 145. Aspl. planicaule 

 (Wallich), Hook. Syn. Fil. 211. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 139. 



The typical laciniatum of North India, has the pinnae elongated 

 and much narrowed towards the apex, and deeply cut into distant 

 segments ; typical planicaule of S. India has very short, half ovate 

 pinnae, scarcely at all cut; there are however many connecting links, 

 and it is impossible, I think, to separate diem even as constant 

 varie ies. Var. depauperatum (Clarke) is also found in S. India, 

 but is, I believe, only a starved form. 



Madras Presidency, all the Western mountains, 3,000-8,000 

 feet; Himala)as, Gurwhal to Bhotan ; Khasya ; Ceylon. 



(Also in Japan.) 



Var. crinigerum. (Bedd.) Pinnae all more deeply and finely 

 cut than any typical laciniatum ; stipe very short (f inch), and very 

 scaly ; rachis densely scaly ; pinnae with long hair -like scales on the 

 nenes beneath. 



South India, en the Balarangam Mountains (Mysore), and on 

 Myhendra Mountains near Ganjam, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation. 



26. Asplenium pumilum. (Sw.) Stipes tufted, 3-4 inches long 

 erect, glalrous or sparingly pubescent; fronds 2-6 inches each 

 way deltoid, the upper part sinuated only, the lower cut into 

 distinct pinnae, of which the lowest pair is much the largest and often 

 pinnatifid nearly to the midrib ; texture herbaceous ; sori very oblique, 

 the lower ones sometimes f-i inch long. Sw. Fl. Bid. Ccc. iii. 16 10. 



(West Indies and Central America.) 



