Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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when viewed between the eye and the light, costules not elevated, 

 areoles 10-12 between the costa and the margin, including 2-4 

 simple or forked clavate soriferous veinlets ; sori prominent (not 

 sunk), forming a broad mass in the disk of the upper half of the 

 frond, not reaching the margin ; capsules mixed with long stipitate 

 peltate stellated scales. Hook. Sj>. Fil. v. 52. Hook. Ic. PL t. 203. 

 Gen. Fil. 83, Poly carp in in, Pr. Bed J. P. B. I. t. 121. 

 Penang, Tenasserim (Parish). 



1 2. NlPHOBOLUS BOOTHII. 



{Hook.) Rhizome short with lan- 

 ceolate-linear golden scales ; stipes 

 S-16 inches long, and stout in pro- 

 portion, tawny brown, paleaceous, 

 with imbricating ferruginous lanceo- 

 late scales only at the very base ; 

 frond carnose-coriaceous, 16-24 

 inches long, 3-4 inches wide, el- 

 liptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, 

 moderately attenuated, glabrous, and 

 punctated above with minute black- 

 ish dots (probably corresponding 

 with the receptacles of the sori), 

 beneath covered with a dense vel- 

 vety mass of ferruginous stellated 

 tomentum ; primary costular veins 

 evident but not prominent, united by 

 transverse arched veins, forming 

 many series of areoles, each with 

 few included veinlets, which are much 

 branched or anastomosing ; sori 

 small, partially sunk in the tomentum 

 forming transverse lines between the costules and as many as there are 

 areoles. Hook. Sp. Pi/, v. 53. Bedd. P. B. I. I. 258, 

 Bhotan. 



Nli'IIOIiOLUS MUMMULARI.KFOLIUS. 



{Mat.) 



