322 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas, dividing ridge between Sikkim and Nepal, and north 

 of the Jongri, 11,000 to 13,000 feet elevation, very abundant. 



6. Goniophlebium microrhizoma. {Clarke.) Rhizome 1 line 

 thick, firm wide-creeping, clothed with grey-brown ovate or lanceolate 

 scales, not hair-pointed; base of the rachis often with a few similar scales; 

 stipes 4-5 inches long; fronds lanceolate, often caudate at the apex, 

 about 1 foot long by 3-4 inches wide, deeply nearly to the rachis 

 pinnatifid, the lowest pinnae sometimes free ; pinnse 20-30 pair, 

 patent lanceolate acute, 3-4 lines broad, distantly incised, texture her- 

 baceous, rachis glabrous above, castaneous beneath ; areoles and sori 

 uniserial, or all the veins often quite free, and not forming areoles. 

 Clarke, F. N. I. 551. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 511. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 384. 



Kashmir to Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet elevation, very common. 

 * * Fronds distinctly pinnate throughout. 



7. Goniophlebium molle. (Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, size 

 of the stem of a tobacco pipe, densely covered with reddish brown 

 subulate scales ; fronds 1 \ foot long, 7-8 inches broad, oblong acu- 

 minate membranaceous, pinnae numerous, 3-4 inches long, \ an inch 

 wide, furnished on both sides as is the rachis with soft weak whitish 

 hairs, sinuate-crenate, superior base often subauricled, superior ones 

 decurrent on the rachis, remainder sessile from a broad base, or 

 inferior ones subpetiolate ; veins forming two series of areoles, the 

 lower of which has the soriferous veinlet arising from the side of the 

 areole distant from the costa, marginal veinlets free or rarely uniting, 

 simple or forked. Bedd. F B. I. t. 206. Polypodium Beddomei 

 (Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. 2nd Edit. 344. 



Malay Peninsula, in Tenasserim. 



8. Goniophlebium subauriculatum. (BL under Polypodiuni) . 

 Rhizome creeping, stoloniferous, densely clothed with narrow acumi- 

 nate, often hair-pointed scales, subpruinate ; stipes a span to a foot 

 and more long, sparingly paleaceous, rufous-brown; fronds firm, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2-6 feet long, a foot and more wide, pinnated, 

 pinnae horizontal, numerous yet remote, 3-10 inches long, \ to nearly 

 \ an inch wide, shortly petioled and jointed on the rachis from a 



