172 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



mucronate, lowest pinnules more distant on short petiolules, inter- 

 mediate ones more approximate, the lower base decurrent, upper 

 ones confluent ; veins pinnated ; veinlets forked once or more ; sori 

 generally in two rows, oblique near the costule in the pinnules that 

 are pinnatifid, extending to the lobes, small, short-linear, straight or 

 lunate ; involucres slightly convex, jagged at the margin ; main rachis 

 stramineous, glossy, flexuose. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 229. Wall. n. 220, 

 {not Mett.) Bedd. F B. I. t. 241. 



Mishmee ; Taongdong Mountains near Ava. The figure is 

 taken from the Ava specimen collected by Wallich, which is 

 bipinnate, the Mishmee specimen is tripinnate. 



13. Athyrium fimbriatum. {Wall, under Aspidiitm.) Stipes 

 stout, darkibh brown, glossy, 1 foot and more long, copiously palea- 

 ceous, most so towards the base, with large glossy, tawny, lanceolate- 

 subulate scales, fronds ample, 2-3 feet long, ovate or subdeltoid 

 acuminate firm-coriaceous, 3-4-pinnate ; primary pinnae petiolate (as 

 are the secondary and tertiary ones), 6-12 inches long, distant from 

 a broad base, lanceolate, much acuminate ; secondary ones also 

 distant, of the same shape, but not acuminate, 1-1 } inches long, 

 numerous ; uhimate pinnules ovate-lanceolate, \ inch long, superior 

 basal one the largest, acute, all pinnatifid with acute lobes, auricled 

 at the superior base, terminal ones subconfluent ; sori 2-5 on each 

 pinnule, broad-oblong, or in age almost globose, very prominent 

 and copious ; involucre brown, membranaceous, broad, generally 

 crescent-shaped or subreniform, fimbriated, extremely convex, soon 

 forced back by sori ; rachises all pale brown, g^ssy, more or less 

 flexuose. Wall. Cat. 339. Hook. Sp. Ml. iii. 234. Syn. Ml. 

 p. 229. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 295. 



Himaliyas, from East Kashmir to Bhotan, 5,000-12,000 feet. 



Var. /j foliosa. ( Wall.) Rachis often very red and waved, 

 glandular in the axis of the pinnae, ultimate segments broader than 

 in the type; sori small. Wall. Cat. 359. Clarke, F. N. I. t. 62. 

 fig. 2. 



Sikkim and Nepal at high levels. 



