384 



Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



3. Gymnogramme microphylla. {Hook.) Stipes densely 

 tufted, 2-4 inches long, slender, fragile, glossy brown ; fronds if— 3 

 inches long, deltoid quadripinnatifid, pinnse close, the lower ones 

 deltoid, pinnules deltoid, ultimate segments \- | of an inch, obovate- 

 ublong, texture pellucid-herbaceous ; veins and % .sori one to each 

 ultimate segment. Hook. Syn. Fil. 383. Bcdd. F. B. I. I. 148, 

 (habit of leptophylla, but not annual.) 



GYMNOGRAMME MICROPHYLLA. {Hook.) 



Khasya, Surareen, 5,000 feet elevation, Sikkim, Tonglo, 7,000- 

 10,000 feet elevation, Sinchal, 8,000 feet elevation, Dikeeling 

 7,500 feet elevation. 



GENUS LXXL— SYNGRAMME. (/ Sm.) 



{Syn to unite ; gramme, a line — sori often in united lines.) 



Sori long linear, arising from the veins and veinlets on the under 

 surface, veins forked close to the midrib or higher up, veinlets parallel 



