Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



399 



Var. ft Parishii, pinna? 9-13, Tenasserim and Mishmee. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 1S4 ; this probably runs into the type, but there is 

 nothing like it in South India. 



2. Meniscium Thwaitesii. {Hook.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 

 thick as a crowquill, stipes 9-1 2 inches long, angled, naked except 

 at the base, fronds 8-10 inches long, 4-6 inches broad at base, 

 deltoid or subdeltoid, the apex acuminate and more or less pinnatifid, 

 below which are several linear oblong rather deeply crenated 



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N°233. 



meniscium Thwaitesii. {Hook.) meniscium salicifolium. {Wall.) 

 pinnae, the lowest stalked, the others sessile or subsessile, i-i inch 

 broad, often suddenly narrowed at the base, texture herbaceous, 

 below a little pubescent, above glabrous or nearly so, except the 

 costa ; areoles generally 5 series between the costa and margin. 

 Hook. Syn. In I. p. 391. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 223. 



South India, Nilgiris, west slopes below Sispara, 3,000 feet 

 elevation ; Ceylon, Matalc, 3,000 feet elevation. 



3. Meniscium salicifolium. {Wall.) Stipe 1 foot or more 

 long, stramineous or pale-brown, glossy ; fronds 12-18 inches long, 



