298 Ferns of British India and Ckyi.on. 



branched by complete pinnate fronds springing from the axils of the 

 pinnae, pinnae generally 4-6 inches long, \— § inch broad, the 

 margin bluntly lobed or crenated, the apex blunt or acute, texture 

 herbaceous or subcoriaceous, rachis and under side glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent; veinlets fine, 6-10 on a side; sori medial, puncti- 

 form oblong or even linear and often confluent in age. Roxb. Wall. 

 Cat. 312, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 489. t. 32. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 315. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 172. Meniscium, Swartz. 



Throughout the Indian region generally on banks of rivers and 

 ditches in the plains or low down on the hills. 



(Also in North Australia, Tropical and South Africa and its 

 Islands ; Philippines ; New Caledonia ; South China.) 



GENUS LIX.— DICTYOPTERIS. (Fresl.). 



(Diktyon, a net ; pteris, fern — the veins netted.) 



Habit and venation of Aspidium, i.e., veins copiously anasto- 

 mosing wit hor without free included veinlets, only differing from 

 Aspidium in wanting an indusium. 



1. Dictyopteris Barberi. (Hook,') Stipes tufted, 6-1 2 inches 

 long, slightly scaly at the base ; fronds palmately 5-lobed or more 

 usually pinnate with a large terminal segment and 1-4 pairs of pinnae, 

 the upper ones oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 inches long, 1 inch broad, 

 nearly entire, the lowest pair with a deep lanceolate lobe at the base 

 on the lower side, texture subcoriaceous, both sides naked ; areoles 

 rather large and regular, with copious free veinlets ; sori copious, 

 principally in two rows near the main veins, dorsal or terminal on a 

 vein or veinlet. Hook. Sp. v. p. 100. Syn. Fil. 317. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 2,22. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



2. Dictyopteris tenerifrons. (Hook.) Caudex small, creep- 

 ing underground, scaleless with very few radicles, stipes few, remote, 



