Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 375 



much concealed by the paleaceous covering. Linn. Sp. PL 1527. 

 Notholaena Marantse, R. Br. Nothochlasna, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 120. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 1. 



Alpine Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon, rare ; Sikkim, 

 9,000-15,000 feet elevation, Lachen Valley. 



(Also in South Europe and the Mediterranean region, from 

 Macaronesia to the Caucasus and Abyssinia.) 



2. Notholaena vellea. (R. Br.) Stipes densely tufted, 

 woolly, wiry, short; fronds 8-9 inches long, \-\\ inch broad, oblong- 

 lanceolate, bipinnate, pinnae close lanceolate, the central ones the 

 largest, with close roundish or oblong entire or 3-lobed pinnules, 

 texture herbaceous but thick, both sides, especially the lower, coated 

 with whitish or subferruginous tomentum, rachis bright chesnut- 

 brown, more or less woolly. R. Br. Prod. p. 146. N. lanuginosa, 

 Desv. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 370. 



Pangi and Lahul in Chumba, Cashmire. 



(Also in Afghanistan, South Europe, Madeira, Cape Verd Isles, 

 Algiers.) 



GENUS LXVIL— MONOGRAMME. (Sc/ik.) 



{Mono, one ; gramme, a line — sori in a single line on each frond.) 



Sori subimmersed, linear elongated close to the midrib on one or 

 both sides, the receptacles formed of a portion of the costa ; veins 

 consisting only of a costa ; fronds small, grass or rush-like, simple or 

 forked, rhizome creeping. 



1. Monogramme paradoxa. (Fee.) Rhizome creeping, hairy ; 

 fronds linear filiform, grass-like, 2-12 inches long, \-\ line broad; 

 sori within a vaginiform expansion of the costa, one side of which is 

 larger than the other. Fee. Vitt. p. 38. M. Junghuhnii, Hook. Sp. , 

 Fil. v. 123. Bedd. F. S. J. t. 210. 



Ceylon, 3,000-5,000 feet elevation, not very common. 



< Vlso in Java, Philippines, Queensland and Polynesian Islands.) 



