Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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about iinchlong, fronds glabrous, coriaceous, 18-20 inches long,linear- 

 oblong, spathulate, broader up- 

 wards, but narrowed and acute 

 at the apex, about 3 inches 

 wide in the widest part, glabrous 

 on both sides, texture less 

 coriaceous than in the last 

 two ; venation more evident, 

 reticulated with free veinlets 

 in some of the areoles, no 

 prominent costules though 

 the primary veins are slightly 

 thicker than the others ; sori 

 in narrow linear more or less 

 flexuose, parallel lines in the 

 upper portion of the frond 

 not touching the costa nor 

 extending to the margin. 

 Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 388. Bedd. 

 F. B. 1. t. 266. 



The Malay Peninsula, LOX ogramme avenia. {Bcker.) 



Penang. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



GENUS LXXIV.— BRATNEA. (/. Sm.) 



(After C. Braine who first introduced the fern.) 



Sori linear, simple or branched, usually on the veins which form 

 the costal areoles and on the bases of the free transverse ones, often 

 more extended and confluent ; veins united so as to form one scries 

 of oblong or triangular costal areoles, the rest free, simple or forked, 

 and generally all free towards the apex of the pinnse ; caudex erect, 

 arborescent; fronds pinrated continuous with the caiuhx. 



1. Brainea [NSiGNiS. (/fook.) Caudex as thick as a mnn's 



