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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2-4 feet long, cut down to a broadly-winged rachis, into entire linear 

 oblong pinnae 6-12 inches long, by 1-2 inches broad ; texture subco- 

 riaceous ; main veins distinct nearly to the margin, connected by 

 numerous prominent cross veins forming 7-8 areoles between the 

 costa and margin, with netted and free veinlets in the areoles ; sori 

 small, scattered on the netted veins ; indusium reniform. Bl. En. 

 PL yav. Fil. 142. Hook. Syn. Fil. 296. Aspid. alatum, Wall. 

 Cat. 378. Sagenia alata, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 169. 



N°I08 

 A,IM!»HM SINGAPORIANUM. ASPIDIUM VASTUM. {Blume. 



{Wall.) 



East Bengal, up to 1,000 feet elevation ; Mishmee ; Khasya ; 

 Chittagong ; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in the Malay Islands.) 



3. Aspidium subconfluens. (Bedd.) Stipes tufted, 1-2 feet 

 long, furnished with dark coloured linear-subulate scales; fronds 

 about 1 foot each way, triangular in outline, tripartite, lateral pinnae 

 opposite or subopposite, shortly petioled, unequal sided with the 



