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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



on both sides ; texture thinly herbaceous, colour dark-green ; rachis 

 villose and fibrillose throughout ; both surfaces naked ; veins pinnate, 

 the groups joining one-third of the way from the midrib to the edge, 

 and the veins of the same and different groups anastomosing ; sori 

 not reaching the edge, copiously diplazioid. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 243. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t 329. 



East Nepal to Mishmee, 4,000-6,000 feet elevation. 



Anisogonium esculentum. (Fresl.) Caudex subarborescent, 



erect ; stipes 1-2 feet long, 

 strong, erect, tufted ; fronds 

 4-6 feet long, occasionally 

 simply pinnate only, but gene- 

 rally bipinnate ; lower pinnae 

 12-18 inches long, 6-8 inches 

 broad ; pinnules 3-6 inches 

 long, f-i inch or more broad, 

 the apex acuminate, the edge 

 more or less deeply lobed, the 

 base narrowed suddenly, often 

 auricled ; texture subcoria- 

 ceous; rachis often pubescent; 

 veins" fine, copiously pinnated, 

 6-10 on each side in each lobe, 

 with a distinct barren central 

 midrib; the veinlets of the 

 different clusters beginning to 

 unite a short distance from the 

 midrib, with lines of sori often on all the lateral veinlets. Fresl. ReL 

 Hcenk.ip.45. Hook. Syn. Fil. 244. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 164, as Callipteris. 

 South India, common in the plains on the Western side and 

 up to 3,000 feet. Bengal Plains ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in China, Formosa, and the Malay Islands.) 



5. Anisogonium Smithianum. {Baker?) Caudex oblique, de^ 

 cumbent ; stipes thick, 1 foot long, slightly scaly below, furfuraceous 



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ANISOGONIUM HETEROPHLEBIUM 



{Mett.) 



