Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 161 



the upper side agian cut into erect-patent linear segments, the lowest 

 on the under side suppressed ; texture coriaceous ; rachis compressed ; 

 sori linear marginal. Kze. in Linncea, x. 521. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 

 222. Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 13S. 



South India, on the Tinnevelly Mountains; Ceylon, Singhe Rajah 

 Forest ; Himalayas, Bhotan, and Mishmee ; Khasya. 



(Also in South Africa, Japan and Fiji.) 



3S. Asplenium Belangeri. (Kze.) Caudex short, stout, 

 erect ; stipes densely tufted, 4 inches to a span long, compressed 

 upwards, greenish ; fronds i-ii feet long, narrow-oblong (the sides 

 almost forming a parallelogram), acuminated only at the apex, 

 sparingly stellate-squamulose beneath, here and there proliferous, 

 subchartaceous, pale green, bipinnate, primary pinnae from 1-2 

 inches long, horizontally patent, singularly uniform in the whole 

 length, linear obtuse, nearly sessile, again pinnated (or they may be 

 said to be deeply pinnatifid), pinnules or segments 2-3 lines long, 

 linear-clavate, or subspathulate, obtuse, straight, or a little curved, 

 decurrent, with the rachis simple monosorous, or the lowest superior 

 one is bifid or subpinnatifid; veins solitary central; sori large, 

 conspicuous, occupying nearly the length of the pinnule, marginal ; 

 involucres of the same colour and texture almost of the frond ; main 

 rachis compressed, partial ones distinctly winged. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 

 209. Syn. Fil. p. 223. Bedd. F B. I. t. 2S7. 



The Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo.) 



GENUS XLL— ATHYRIUM. (Roth.) 

 (Dcrivatio7i unknown?) 

 As in Asplenium, but the involucres, or at least many of them, 

 more or less curved, often horseshoe-shaped, rarely quite uniform as 

 in Lastrea. 



1. Athyrium spinulosum. (Max.) Stipes 6-12 inches long, 

 scattered, firm, erect, straw-coloured, furnished more or less with 

 pale brown lanceolate scales; fronds 6-12 inches, deltoid, as broad as 

 long, 3-pinnate; pinnae 9-12 pairs, lowest the largest, 2.J-3 inches 



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