Ff.rns of British India and Ceylon. 



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Polypodium porosum, Wall. Cat. n. 266. Niph. Schmidianus, Kze. 

 Bot. Zeit. \\. p. 121. Polyp, mysurense (Heyne), Wall. Cat. 269. 

 Niph. floccigerus {Melt), Bedd. F. Sup. t. 386. 



South India, Western mountains, 3,000-8,000 feet elevation ; 

 Ceylon, central provinces ; Himalayas and Khasya, 2,000-7,000 

 feet elevation ; Malay Peninsula. (The Khasya floccigerus only 

 differs in the fronds being narrower.) 



9. NlPHOBOLUS FLOCCULOSUS. \ 



(Don.) Rhizome short, stout densely 

 scaly, especially at base of stipes, 

 with finely subulate golden scales ; 

 stipes 2-8 inches long, aggregated, 

 clothed as are the fronds with 

 dense whitish or brownish stellate 

 tomentum; fronds 4-16 inches 

 long by f-i \ broad, carnore-coria- 

 ceous, lanceolate, finely acuminate, 

 subsinuate, moderately attenuated 

 and decurrent, or broad and une- 

 qually hastate at the base, in age 

 glabrous above and blackish punc- 

 tate, venation immersed, costules 

 indistinct, areoles 9-16 each with ,'•'. 

 3-5 included veinlets which are 'J- ■■'" 

 generally free, simple or forked, n'mso. 



more rarely anastomosing with a niphobolus flocculosus. (Don.) 

 veinlet from the top of the areole ; sori scarcely sunk, small but 

 slightly elevated above the tomentum, very copious, arranged in 

 regular rows between the costules. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 1. N. 

 dttergibilis, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 49. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 162. P. costa- 

 tum, Wall. Cat. 265, partly. 



Himalayas, Gurwhal to Bhotan, up to 5,000 feet elevation, 

 Khasya, extending into the Sylhet plains. 



10. NlPHOBOLUS Gardneri. (Metten.) Rhizome short-creep- 



