Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 373 



attenuated and petioled, both sides glabrous; n\ain veins scarcely 

 more prominent than the rest, areoles with copious free veinlets; 

 sori large, in a single row, a little nearer the midrib than the margin. 

 Polypodium, Wall. Cat. 303, type-sheet. Hook. Syn. Fit. 369. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. 174. 



South India, common on all the Western mountains, 2,000-4,000 

 feet, on rocks ; North India, from no elevation up to 4,000 feet. 



TRIBE II.— GRAMMITIDE^. 



Sori on the back of the lobes, more than twice as long as broad, 

 usually linear. 



GENUS LXVL— NOTHOL^ENA. (R. Br.) 



(Not/ios, spurious ; Icenos, wool — the scales on back of frond pseudo- 

 woolly.) 



Sori marginal, at first oblong or roundish, soon confluent into a 

 continuous marginal line, without a distinct involucre, but with the 

 edge of the frond frequently inflexed ; veins free ; fronds adherent 

 to the caudex, pinnate or bipinnate. 



1. Nothol/ena Marant.e. (Z. under Acrostic/mm.) Rhizome 

 stout, horizontal, densely paleaceous with soft silky ferruginous finely 

 pointed subulate scales; stipes generally stout purplish-black, 3-10 

 inches long, aggregated, setosely and densely hirsute, as well as the 

 rachis ; fronds 4-10 inches long, 2-2 \ inches wide, oblong-lanceolate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath densely clothed with ferruginous 

 oblong-lanceolate imbricated scales, bipinnate, primary pinnas pe- 

 tiolate or sessile from a broadish obtuse base, oblong-acuminate, 

 pinnules not numerous, approximate, sessile, 2-3 lines long, very 

 obtuse entire, upper ones confluent at the base (as are the terminal 

 primary pinnre), the edge scarcely reflexed ; sori forming a broad 

 1 /order extending some way from the margin towards the costule. 



