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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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it ; it has glandular dots on the under surface, 6-7 pairs of veins, of 



which the four lower anastomose. 



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 10. Nephrodium urophyllum. {Wall, under Polypodium.) 



Rhizome short creeping; stipes approximate, 2 feet or more long, 

 stout, erect, furnished with lanceolate-linear brown scales below ; 

 fronds up to about 4 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae narrow-oblong, 

 subsessile or sessile, acuminate or caudate at the apex, 6-12 inches 

 long by i|-2 inches broad, the margin subentire, slightly crenated or 

 with very short serratures ; upper surface quite glabrous, or the 



rachis of the pinnae a little stri- 

 gose, under surface quite glabrous 

 or with some minute pubescence 

 on the veins, copious glabrous 

 not glandular punctiform dots 

 are present on both sides ; tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous or herbaceous, 

 veins 8-10 pair, rarely 14, all or 

 nearly all anastomosing, the ex- 

 current veinlets either free or 

 joining the pair above ; sori 

 small, one to each vein, about 

 its centre; indusium reniform, 

 generally absent. Wall. Cat. 299. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 314. Goni- 

 opteris, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 239. Nephrodium lineatum, Presl. 

 Epim. Bot.p. 48. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 72. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 133. 

 Asp. lineatum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. 144, (not Wall) Nephro. glandu- 

 losum, Bedd. F. B. J. t. 132, {not Blume.) 



Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan and Chittagong 1,000- 

 5,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon, Oodawella Forest ; not in South 

 India. There can be no doubt that this is a Nephrodium, and that 

 involucres are often present, though Mr. Clarke has still kept it in 

 Goniopteris. Sir W. Hooker described it both as a Nephrodium and 

 as a Goniopteris. 



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NEPHRODIUM UROPHYLLUM. 

 (Wall.) 



(Also in Java and Philippines.) 



