Ferns of British India and Ceylon. . 157 



shape, the ultimate segments ovate or oblong, acutely serrate, texture 

 coriaceous : veins obscure, oblique ; sori copious, involucre with an 

 entire margin. Linn. Sp. PL 1541. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 214. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 62. 



Kashmir, 5,000-8,000 feet, extending to Dalhousie and Chumba. 



(Also in Europe, North Asia, North Africa, South Africa and 

 its islands, and Sandwich Islands.) 



30. Asplenium furcatum. (Tkwib.) Stipes tufted, 4-8 

 inches long, clothed with deciduous woolly hairs, as is the rachis ; 

 fronds coriaceous, 6-tS inches long, 4-6 inches broad ; pinna? 12-20 

 pair, lanceolate-deltoid, f— 1 inch broad, cut down throughout nearly to 

 the rachis into linear-cuneate pinnules,' which are sharply serrated, on 

 the outer edge; veins flabellate, deeply channelled; sori linear. TJiunb. 

 Prod. Fl. P. 172. Hook. Syn. Fil. />. 215. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 144. 



South India, common on the higher Western mountains, 

 Ootakamund, &:c. ; Ceylon, 5,000-7,000 feet. 



(Also in Tropical America, Polynesian Islands, Australia, Cape 

 Colony, Abyssinia, Mascareen Islands, and Canaries.) 



31. Asplenium affine. (Swarfs.) Stipes 6-12 inches long, 

 firm, erect, grey, nearly naked; fronds 12-18 inches long, 6-12 

 inches broad ; pinnae numerous on each side, the lower ones 

 lanceolate-rhomboidal, cut down to the rachis into numerous distinct 

 rhomboidal pinnules, 4-6 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad, which are 

 incised or deeply lobed ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, 

 naked ; veins subflabellate ; sori copious, linear. Sw. in Schr. Jour. 

 1,800. 11. 56. Hook. Syn. Fil. 215. Asp. spathulinum (J. Sm.), Bedd. 

 F. S. J. t. 226 (probably taken from a specimen of fnrcainm and 71 of 

 from affine as represented at Kew.) 



Ceylon. 



(Also in Mascareen Islands, Philippines, Porneo, Fiji, and 

 Sandwich Islands.) 



32. Asplenium nitidum. (Swartz.) Stipes 1 foot long, firm, 

 erect, greyish, naked ; fronds 2-3 feet long, 1 foot broad ; pinnae 

 numerous, lanceolate-deltoid, the lowest 6-9 inches long, 2-3 inches 

 broad, cut down to the rachis into numerous stalked subdeltoid 



