Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 273 



pinnae rather distant, 6-9 inches long, f-i inch broad, cut about one- 

 third of the way down into subtriangular sharp pointed lobes ; texture 

 coriaceous; rachis and lower surface hairy; veinlets 8-10 on a side, 

 5-6 pair anastomose ; sori in rows about midway between the midrib 

 and edge ; indusium naked, lower pinna? reduced. Aspid. Don. Prod. 

 Fl. Nep. p. 4. A. venulosum, Wall. Cat. 352. type sheet. A. obscu- 

 rum, Blume. Neph. aridum, Hook. Syn. Fil.p. 291. Bedd. F. B. 1. 1, 

 297. 



Throughout East Bengal abundant, from the Soonderbun to Assam 

 and the Dehra Doon, up to 3,000 feet elevation. 



Malay Peninsula (not in South India or Ceylon.) 



9. Nephrodium glan- 

 dulosum. (Hook.) Stipes 

 approximate, main rachis 

 closely villous, frond 1 foot 

 long, adpressedly strigose on 

 the upper surface ; pinnae trun- 

 cate at the base, subentire, 

 serrate or pinnatifid scarcely 

 one-sixth the way to the mid- 

 rib ; veinlets beneath minutely 

 hirsute, several pairs uniting, 

 indusium reniform, elongate, 

 prominent, firm ; sori ulti- 

 mately often confluent, Hook. 

 Sp. FU. iv. id, partly. Clarke, 



N?l39. 



NEPHRODIUM ARIDUM. [Don.) 



F JV. I. p. 531, t. 74, and 

 fig. 1. Not Bedd. F. B. 1. t, 

 132, which is urophyllum. 



The above is Mr. Clarke's diagnosis from Blume's specimens 

 collected in Java, but there is an exactly similar specimen in the Kew 

 Herbarium from Griffith, supposed to have been collected in Assam, 

 but Mr. Clarke thinks it is probably from Malacca, but in either 

 case it must be recorded in this work ; it differs from the next in 

 being strigose above, but T strongly suspect it is only a slight variety of 



