280 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



strong, densely fibrillose, the hairs long black and leaving the stem 

 rough when they fall ; fronds 3-4 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae rather 

 close spreading, up to 15 inches long, by 1— if inches broad ; apex 

 very acuminate, cut down about one-third into lanceolate-falcate 

 lobes ; texture rigid coriaceous, both surfaces glossy ; veins very prom- 

 inent, 12-15 on each side, the lower (about 5) pairs anastomosing, the 

 excurrent veinlet joined throughout and very prominent ; sori basal on 

 the veins close to the costule. Hook. Syn. Fil. 294. Bedd. F. N. I. 

 t. 129. 



Kumaon. (Mr. Clarke doubts the Himalayan locality, but 

 there are specimens in Kew Herbarium supposed to have been 

 collected there, and I received it from the Calcutta Herbarium as 

 Himalayan.) 



(Also in Java and the Philippines.) 



18. Nephrodium truncatum. (Presl.) Rhizome short, erect, 

 stipes tufted stout erect up to 2 feet long, greyish naked or slightly 

 pubescent ; fronds pinnate up to 4 feet long, the lower pinnae re- 

 duced often to mere auricles ; rachis slightly pubescent or glabrous ; 

 pinnae numerous up to n inches long by if inch broad, acuminate 

 at the apex, sessile or subsessile and often somewhat contracted 

 towards the base, cut down about half-way to the partial rachis into 

 oblong lobes which are more or less square at the apex and crenated ; 

 texture herbaceous, upper surface generally glabrous, lower glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent on the costa and veins, and sometimes with 

 glandular dots ; veins 6-9 pairs, generally the two, rarely 3-4 lower 

 anastomose ; sori small medial or nearer the costule than the margin ; 

 involucre reniform. Presl. Tent. Pter. 81. Hook. Syn, Fil. 294. 

 Neph. eusorum (T/iw.), Bedd. F. S. I. 130. Asp. prionophyllum, 

 Wall. Cat. 355. Asp. multilineatum, Wall. Cat. 353, from Singa- 

 pore, Wall. 352, 2>rd sheet. 



South India, Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills ; Ceylon, Cen- 

 tral Provinces, 2,000-5,000 feet elevation ; Cachar and Chittagong 

 Hills at no elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Malay Islands, North Australia, and Polynesia.) 



