Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



;3; 



forked or pinnate, where pinnate the lower branches generally 

 anastomose ; sori universal p 

 on the veins. Bedd. F. B. 

 I.t. 154. Grammitis vestita, 

 Wall. Cat. 12. Gymno- 

 gramme vestita, Hook. Syn. 



Fil '-379 



Himalayas from Chum- 

 ba to Nepal, 6,000-9,000 

 feet elevation. 



(Also in China.) 



3. Syngramme Wal- 

 lichii. {Hook) Stipes 

 tufted up to 20 inches long, 

 firm, glossy brown, fibrillose 

 near the base ; fronds up to 

 one foot long by 2 \ inches 

 broad, elliptic - lanceolate, 

 simple, acuminate, entire at 

 the margin, the base narrow- 

 ed very gradually, texture 

 subcoriaceous, both sides 

 glabrous; veins fine parallel, 

 simple, or forked from the 

 base or much higher up, 

 rarely joining with the con- 

 tiguous group about the 

 centre, but all anastomosing 

 near the margin and forming 

 2-3 small oblong hexagonal 

 areoles ; sori on all the 

 straight veins, but scarcely 

 extending to anastomosing 

 ones nearthe margin. Bcdd. 

 F. B. I. t. 153, Gymnogramme, Hook. Sp. Fil. v./. 155, t. 302 



SYNGRAMMli VESTITA 



N?223. 



{Wall.) 



