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arm, clothed with shaggy dark-brown ferruginous subulate-lanceolate 

 scales, f-i inch long; stipes stout, firm, 3-4 inches long, scaly only 

 at the base ; fronds coriaceous bright-green (Lomaria-like), pinnate, or 

 occasionally below partially bipinnate; pinnae numerous, close, horizon- 

 tal, 5-6 inches long, 4 lines broad, base cordate, linear-oblong, acumi- 

 nate, finely serrate. Hook. Syn. Fil. 390. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 139. 



Khasya Hills, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation, Pomrang and Jainka ; 

 Malay Peninsula, in Tenasserim, the fir forests (Parish), on Mooleyit, 

 4,000 feet (Beddome.) 



(Also in Hong Kong.) 



GENUS LXXV.— MENISCIUM. (Schreb.) 

 {Meniskos, cresent ; shape of fructification,) 

 Sori naked, oblong or linear, occupying the transverse connivent 

 veinlets ; veins pinnate, veinlets numerous, the opposite ones uniting 

 in an arc or angle, and sending out from the angle a free or con- 

 tinuous venule ; fronds simple or pinnate, (only differs from Goni- 

 opteris in the shape of the sori.) 



1. Meniscium triphyllum. (Sick) Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, 

 with chesnut lanceolate-linear scales at the extremities ; stipes slender, 

 slightly pubescent, of the fertile frond 1 foot long or more, of the 

 sterile often shorter ; fronds 3-foliate or with 5 or more pinnae, the 

 terminal one much the largest, all oblong-lanceolate with a broad 

 base and acute apex, about 4-6 inches long by f— 1| inch broad, 

 stalked or subsessile, margin entire or subrepand, the fertile ones often 

 narrower, texture herbaceous, slightly pubescent beneath; areoles 

 6-9 between midrib and margin. Sw. Syn. Fil. 19, 206. Hook. Syn. 

 FY. 391. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 56. Wall. Cat. 61. 



South India, Bolampatty Valley, Anamallays, Travancore, 2,000 

 -3000 feet elevation, gregarious and forming very large beds, nearly 

 always trifoliate, rarely 5-foliate; Ceylon, Matale and Saffragam, 2,000- 

 3,000 feet: North India, Eastern Bengal, Cachar, Chittagong, Sikkim, 

 at no great elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in China and Philippines.) 



