Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 32; 



somewhat cordate or truncated and occasionally auricled base, linear- 

 lanceolate, finely and gradually acuminated, serrated ; veins forming a 

 double costular series of areoles, including a free venule, of which the 

 lower series is soriferous, mar- 



ginal veinlets free ; sori in a 

 single series forming slightly 

 elevated pustules on the superi- 

 or side. Bl. Fil.Jav.p. 177, /. 

 S3. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 32. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 78. 



Khasya, 3,000-5,000 feet 

 elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 



N?I73. 



GONIOPHLEBIUM SUBAURICU LATUM. 



(Also ia Malay Islands and Queensland.) 



(BL) 



( Wall, imder Poly podium.) 



9. GONIOPHLEBIUM ARGUTUM 



Rhizome thick as a writing- 

 quill, squarrose with ovate-acute 

 short blackish or brown glossy 

 spreading scales, stipes 3-4 

 inches to a span long, brown 

 glossy ; fronds firm-membra- 

 naceous, glabrous, 1-2 feet 

 long, 8-10 inches broad, pin- 

 nated, pinna? distant sub 

 horizontally patent, 4-6 inches 

 long, -§-f inch wide, from a \ 

 broader but obtusely and ob- 

 lique cuneated or subtruncated 

 base (rarely rotundate-auricled) 

 elongate-oblong, acuminate, 

 ratherobtusely serrated, lower 

 ones often opposite, the rest 

 alternate, superior ones more 

 or less adnate and decurrent, terminal one similar to the rest, veins 

 forming a costal series of large oblong suriferous areoles; marginal 

 veins ending in a thickened apex within the margin all free ; sori super- 



N°I74-. 

 OONIOFHLEB1UM ARGUTUM. 



