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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas, Kumaon to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet, very com- 

 mon ; Assam ; Khasya, 3,000-6,000 feet, very common. 





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Var. multicaudatum. (J Fall.) Rhizome creeping; fronds 

 up to 3 feet 1 primary pinnae up to 1 foot long ; secondary pinnge 

 petioled, about 3 inches long and 1 inch broad, acuminate, cut down 

 nearly to the rachis, the segments oblique to the rachis, -J-f inch 

 long, rather narrow ligulate, more or less sharply serrated ; veinlets 

 1 ^*^^*» forked or simple ; sori oblong 



or subquadrate near the ra- 

 chis; lower indusia diplazioid. 

 Wall. Cat. 229. Dipl. Jerdoni, 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 327. D. 

 Griffithii, Baker, Syn. Fil. 239. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. 328. 



Himalayas, from Nepal 

 to Bhotan, 1,000-5,000 feet, 

 common. Khasya, 1,000- 

 5,000 feet ; Chittagong, 200- 

 2,000 feet. 



Var. assimile. (Endl.) 

 Fronds deltoid, membrana- 

 ceous, flaccid, tripinnate, with 

 the tertiary pinnse (pinnules) 

 very small, deeply pinnatifid ; 

 segments rounded entire, to slightly crenated ; veins from pinnate 

 to simple or forked, according to the size of the segments ; sori 

 oblique from the midrib towards the margin; indusia mostly dip- 

 lazioid. End. Fl. Norf. 10. Bedd. F. S. I t. 294. Athyrium 

 australe, Thw. En. PL Zey. p. 385. Perhaps a distinct species. 

 Ceylon, central provinces. 

 (Also in Norfolk Island and Australia.) 



Mr. Clarke informs me that Miiller has placed his Diplazium 

 belluna in a new genus of Cyatheae. 



N°9I. 



DIPLAZIUM UMBROSUM, 

 VAR. MULTICAUDATUM. {Wall. 



