32o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



minute, not hair-pointed ; stipe 3-4 inches long, naked, stramineous, 

 very slender; frond oblong-deltoid, 3-4 inches long, i|— 2 inches 

 broad, pinnatind nearly to the rachis, lobes 5-10 jugate, ligulate blunt, 

 3-4 lines broad, obscurely repand, adnate, only the lowest narrowed 

 at the base, on the lower side scarcely shortened, texture rigidly 

 subcoriaceous ; racbis and costas below and under surface pilose ; 

 main veins raised, very distinct to nearly the edge, costal areoles in 

 one or two series, the second series when present generally without a 

 free veinlet in lower areole, sometimes forked, or rarely netted and 

 graduating into the venation of Pleopeltis ; sori in a single series in 

 the lower areoles. Mett. Knhn. Linn. 36, p. 135. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 511. Bedd. F. B. I. Sup. 382 . 



All my specimens from Messrs. Clarke and Atkinson have 

 typical Goniophlebium venation, so also have nearly all the speci- 

 mens at Kew. Mr. Clarke, however, has removed the species to 

 Pleopeltis, because some specimens gathered by him have the costal 

 areoles less defined and the veinlets somewhat netted and graduat- 

 ing into the venation of Pleopeltis. I look upon these as abnor- 

 mal, the whole habit of the plant being that of Goniophlebium. 



Sikkim, Lacheen, 9,000-11,000 feet elevation, Yakla valley, 

 8,000 feet. 



5. Goniophlebium Hendersoni. {Atkinson, MS.) Rhizome 

 very slender, glaucous, wide-creeping, clothed with hair-pointed 

 scales ; stipes 3-4 inches long, naked or scaly, very slender, 

 grey, stramineous ; fronds narrow-lanceolate 8-10 inches long, 

 i\-2 inches broad, deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatind, or 

 the lower lobes or pinnae quite free ; pinnae or lobes 20-30 pair, 

 patent lanceolate acute, 3-4 lines broad, distantly incised, all except 

 the lowest dilated at their base, texture moderately firm, surfaces 

 green, naked ; areoles and sori uniserial, the latter near the midrib, 

 not crowded, occasionally the veins are all or nearly all quite free and 

 not anastomosing, or forming areoles, costal arches of the main 

 rachis prominent, very long and narrow, absent of course at the base 

 of the larger fronds, where it is pinnate, not pinnatind. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 511. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 383. 



