Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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19. Nephrodium brachyodon. {Hook.) Stipes tufted, 1-2 

 feet long, greyish naked : fronds up to 3 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae 

 petiolate, often contracted at base, 6-9 inches long, i-§-i| inches 

 broad cut about one-third or half-way down into blunt slightly falcate 

 lobes, lower pinnae not much smaller than the others ; texture sub- 

 coriaceous; rachis naked or slightly pubescent, upper surface glabrous, 

 except the partial rachis which is slightly hairy, under surface gla- 

 brous except the rachis and costules which are slightly hairy ; veins 

 8-12, all free or the lower one anastomosing and with sometimes an 

 excurrent veinlet, a single vein generally rises from the rachis of 

 the pinnae, between the pinnate groups of veins and runs to the mar- 

 gin ; sori medial on the veins ; involucre reniform. Hook. Syn. Fil. 



N?!4-3. 



NEPHRODIUM TRUNCATUM. (Prcsl.) 



295. Bedd. F. B. I. 379. The lower pair of veins only occasionally 

 anastomose in the Malay Peninsula plant, but in the West Indian 

 plant several pairs generally join ; the two plants, however, seem quite 

 to run one into the other, and I am afraid they also connect Lastrea 

 crassifolia. 



Malacca and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in West Indies and Peru.) 



Nephrodium multijugum (/hiker), given as a Malay Peninsula 



