Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



235 



|-f inch broad, slightly cre- 

 nate, the upper edge auricled 

 and truncate, parallel with the 

 stem, the lower oblique; tex- 

 ture papyraceous, rachis villous, 

 both surfaces slightly villous or 

 glabrous in age ; sori near the 

 margin ; involucre cordiform, 

 roundish fugacious. Beanv. 

 in the Flot'c d'Oware. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. 301. Neph. obliterata 

 {Hook), Bedd. F.&I. 251. 



Ceylon, central provinces, 

 2,000-5,000 feet, climbing on 

 trees ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Tropical Africa ; 

 Philippines; Australia; Fiji.) 



"-.: 



IN?H5-. 

 NEPHROLEPIS RAMOSA. (BedUV.) 



GENUS LVL— OLEANDRA. (Cav.) 



(Resemblance to the Oleander.) 



Sori round, inserted in a row near the base or below the centre 

 of the compact free veinlets ; involucre reniform ; fronds entire 

 lanceolate-elliptical, stems jointed, rhizome wide-creeping. 



1. Oleandra neriiformis. (Cav.) Shoots woody, wide-creeping 

 but often suberect, clothed with short adpressed scales which are often 

 deciduous ; stipes short, seldom 1 inch long, with the joint below the 

 middle; fronds 4-8 inches long, |-i| inch broad, in opposite pairs 

 or often in terminal whorls, or more rarely scattered, from narrow-linear 

 to oblong-acuminate ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous or 

 hairy underneath ; sori in two rather irregular rows near the midrib. 

 Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 58. Syn. Fil, 302. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 264. 



Himalayas from Nepal eastwards ; Khasya ; 2,000-5,000 feet 

 elevation. 



(Also in Central America.) 



