270 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



veinlet, or meeting just at the sinus without the excurrent veinlet, or 

 the lowest pair is quite free (as in Lastrea), the other pairs always all 

 free ; sori towards the apex of the veins and present on all or all but 

 the 1-2 lower ones, often much immersed and visible as punctiform 

 dots on the upper surface. Asp. extensum, Bl. En. PI. J-'av. Fil. 156, 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 289, {not Bedd. F. S. I. t. 85, which is large molle). 

 Asp. multijugum, Wall. Cat. 348, {not 355, which is truncatum). 

 Nep. punctatum, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 131, {not punctatum, Baker, 

 Syn. Fil. p. 513, which is Lastrea ochthodes, vide specimen in Kew 

 Herbarium.) 



South India, Tinnevelly Hills, rare ; Ceylon, central pro- 

 vinces, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation ; Birma, Penang, and Malay 

 Peninsula (Khasya, 2 sheets of Griffiths in the Kew Herbarium, but 

 not found by any one else in North India). 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



5. Nephrodium microsorum. {Clarke.) Rhizome wide 

 creeping, stipes angled, furnished with linear-subulate long soft brown 

 persistent scales towards the base, more or less softly pubescent as 

 is the rachis ; fronds about 2 feet long ; pinnae rather distant, sessile, 

 about 4i inches long, by f inches broad, the lower ones somewhat 

 reduced or the stipe with auricles, deeply cut almost to the rachis 

 into linear-oblong tongue-like entire or subentire segments, the upper 

 and lower basal ones often considerably longer than the others ; 

 texture thinly herbaceous, both surfaces, especially the under one, 

 furnished with scattered long white needle-like hairs ; veins about 

 13 pairs, the lowest pair always regularly anastomosing at an acute 

 angle very near the costa of the pinnae with an excurrent vein, the 

 other pairs always all free ; sori minute, sometimes only near the 

 costa of the pinnae and scarcely extending to the lobes ; involucre 

 glabrous caducous. N. extensum, var. microsorum, Clarke, F. 

 JV. I. t. 530, and var. late-repens. 



Sikkim up to 4,000 feet elevation, very abundant about Siligori, 

 near the foot of the Darjeeling Pass. 



6. Nephrodium cucullatum. {Bl.) Stipes about 1 foot 



