Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 327 



two or three clavate veinlets in each, which are variously directed, 

 free or rarely joined to the base of the areole above ; sori large, 

 partially sunk in the tomentum, often confined to the apex of the 

 frond, or scattered, or covering nearly all the under surface. Bedd. F. 

 B. I. t. 161. P. Niphobolus jaintense, Clarke, F. N. I. p. 552, /. 82. 

 Khasya hills, Jaintea, Jarain, 3,500 feet elevation. Considered 

 a variety of adnascens by Mr. Baker, but sufficiently distinct in its 

 venation, I think, to rank as a species. 



3. Niphobolus acrostichoides. (Sw!) Rhizome wide-creep- 

 ing, branched, younger portions squarrose, with rather large bright fer- 

 ruginous lanceolate scales; stipes 1-3 inches long furnished at the base 

 with obtuse scales; frond hard coriaceous, 1-2 feet and more long, 

 §— 1 inch wide, glabrous above, beneath whitish or tawny, stellate- 

 tomentose (tomentum very deciduous) elongate-lanceolate or linear 

 obtuse ; sterile fronds generally the broadest ; areoles 5-7 between the 

 costa and margin, each with 3-6 veinlets free and simple, or variously 

 forked and anastomosing; sori rather small, prominent, very compact, 

 generally occupying the upper part of the frond, arranged in 6-8 

 oblique very close series between the costules. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 2 9 

 and 225. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 44. Bedd. F B. I. t. 81. Polyp furfu- 

 raceum, Wall. Cat. n. 278. 



Birma and the Malay Peninsula generally. I have specimens 

 from Tenasserim 2 feet long and only \ inch wide. 



4. Niphobolus Heteractis. {Mett.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 

 the scales copious lanceolate-linear, not adpressed golden ; stipes 

 distant up to 7 inches long, more or less scaly ; fronds oblong, 

 with a long acumination about 6 inches long by if inches broad, 

 coriaceous, the fertile not generally contracted, upper surface glabrous, 

 lower clothed with close compact stellate scales, the rays of which are 

 broad, with filamentous hairs admixed; areoles in 8-9 series 

 between the costa and margin, each including 2-3 veinlets, which 

 are generally forked and more or less anastomosing ; sori rather large 

 and prominent. Mett. Kuhn in Linn. 36, 140. Clarke, F. N. F. /». 

 535. N. Lingua, Hook. Syn Fil. 350, in part, and p. 512. Bedd. 

 F. Supt. t. 385. 



