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11. Nephrodium moulmeinense. (Bedd.) Stipes firm, erect, 

 2 feet or more long ; fronds up to 4 feet long, pinnate, pinnae 

 often with a large gland at base, numerous coriaceous, about 1 foot long 

 and i|-i| inch broad, narrow oblong, caudate at the apex, the 

 margin with sharp serratures, which are falcate and only about one 

 line deep, sometimes nearly obsolete or obscure, the frond being 

 nearly entire, upper surface generally quite glabrous and shining, 

 under surface with obscure hairs on the costa and veins ; veins very 

 prominent 16-21 pair, all but the upper 2-3 pair anastomosing with 

 a zigzag excurrent veinlet united throughout ; sori medial on the 

 veins or often near their apex in a single row on each side of the 

 costule ; indusium reniform. Bedd. F. Sup. 

 p. 18. Goniopteris lineata, Bedd. F. B. I. 

 1. 3. G. multilineata, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 231, 

 (not 232, Penangiana, which is the next 

 species). Polypodium multilineatum ( Wall.), 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 316. I have been obliged 

 to rename this as it is a Nephrodium, and 

 there is another Neph. multilineatum, i. e. 

 Wallich's (our truncatum). 



South India, very common on the Gol- 

 condah Hills (west of Vizagapatam) 2,000- 

 3,000 feet elevation, involucre distinct ; (not 

 on the Western mountains). Throughout nephrodium 



North India, from the plains up to 5,000 moulmeinense. {Bedd.) 

 feet elevation, very common ; Birma, very common near Moulmein 

 (involucre distinct) ; this differs from urophyllum in being more 

 rigid in texture and in having many more veins. 



12. Nephrodium costatum. (Wall, under Polypodium.) Stipes 

 1 \ foot and more long, rather stout, scaleless, glossy, and as well as the 

 rachis strongly tinged with red (rarely stramineous); fronds 1-3 feet 

 long, broad-oblong or lanceolate coriaceous-submembranaceous 

 pinnated glabrous, pinnae numerous, rather distant, patent, sessile 5-S 

 inches long, \ an inch or a little more broad (on sterile fronds some- 

 times exceeding an inch) from an obliquely cuneate truncate sessile 



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