164 



Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Madras Presidency, in the Western Forests, from the plains up 

 to 4,000 feet ; Ceylon, Scinde. 



4. Athyrium falcatum. (Bedd.) Stipes 1-9 inches long with 

 many linear golden scales at the base ; fronds 6-14 inches long, with 

 the rachis above dilated or winged, linear-lanceolate, narrowed at 

 both ends, pinnae 15-20 on each side, sessile, alternate, i-i^- inch 

 long, by j-i inch broad, falcate-ovate, deflexed, obtuse or acumi- 

 nate, generally with a large obtuse auricle at both the superior and 



inferior base, above pinnatifid 

 almost half down to the costa ; 

 segments obtuse, crenated; sori 

 numerous on each side cf the 

 costa, at length confluent and 

 covering the whole or nearly the 

 whole of the under surface. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. 151. Asplenium 

 drepanophyllum, Baker, Syn. 

 Fil. 226. 



South India, Anamallay 

 Hills, dry grassy places 5,000 

 feet. Myhenda Hill near Ber- 

 hampore, 4,500 feet; Mahable- 

 s rawer ; Parasnath 4,000 feet. 









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ATHYRIUM FALCATUM. (Bedd.) 



5. Athyrium thelypte- 

 roides. (Miehx.) Stipes 6-8 

 inches or more, furnished at the base with large lanceolate thin light 

 coloured scales ; fronds generally about 3 feet long and 8 inches broad, 

 lanceolate, gradually narrowed towards the base ; pinnse numerous, 

 erect-patent, f-i inch broad, cut three-quarters of the way to the 

 rachis or more into oblong blunt crenated segments ; sori in close 

 regular rows, short, oblong ; indusium persistent. Michx. Fl. Bor. 

 Am. n. 265. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 226. A. allantodioides, Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 221, not F. B. 1. t. 68, which is a form of Diplazium 

 sorzogonense. 



