i5 S Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



pinnules, which are again cut down to the rachis into broad flabellate 

 cuneate segments, serrated round the outer edge; texture subcori- 

 aceous ; rachis firm, grey, naked ; veins channelled, flabellate ; sori 

 short, radiant. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 280. Hook. Syn Fil.p. 215. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 148, 149. Aspl. laserpitiifolium, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 225. 



Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam ; Khasya, Cachar, 1,000-4,000 feet 

 elevation ; Ceylon ; Madras Presidency in the Western forests ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also in Malay Islands and S. Africa.) 



33. Asplenium fontanum. (Bemh.) Stipes tufted, 2-4 

 inches long, wiry, slender, glabrous; fronds 3-6 inches long, i-i| 

 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; pinnae numerous, the lower ones 

 reduced, often somewhat remote, pinnate, pinnatifid or only toothed ; 

 texture herbaceous, rachis and surfaces bright green; veins oblique; sori 

 copious, covering nearly the whole segment. Bernh. s in Schrad. Aeu. 

 Jour. 1 ft. ii. 26. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 216. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 146. 



Himalayas, from Kashmir to Gurwhal, 5,000-9,000 feet. 

 (Also in Europe.) 



Var. ft exiguum. Frondsless divided and more narrow, and 

 an ebeneous rachis. Asp. exiguum, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 146. 

 Nilgiris, Kulhatty ; Himalayas. 



34. Asplenium varians. (Hook and Grev.) Stipes tufted, 

 1-3 inches long, slender, nake-l, greenish ; fronds 4-6 inches long, 

 1 inch broad, oblong-lanceolate; pinnae 8-12 pair, the lower ones 

 subdeltoid |-f inch long, -j-f inch broad, cut down to the rachis 

 into a few cuneate flabellate pinnules, the lowest two lines across, 

 sharply toothed on the outer edge ; texture thin, herbaceous ; rachis, 

 slender, naked, green ; veins, one carried into each tooth ; sori 

 copious. Hook. Syn. Fil. 216. Bedd. F S. I. t. 129. 



South India, common on the Nilgiris and the mountains on 

 the west side, 3,000 feet upwards ; Himalayas, 6,000-10,000 feet, 

 rarer eastwards ; Ceylon, 3,000 feet and upwards. 



A form found at Kulhatty on the Nilgiris, quite runs into the 

 European lanceolatum. Another form on the Tinnevelly hills west of 



