Ferns of British India and Ceylon, 



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erect, short ; stipe of the barren frond, 2-4 inches long, of the fertile 

 often 1 foot long, dark chesnut-brown, glossy densely fibrillose 

 towards the base ; fronds 2-3 inches each way, cordate-hastate, the 

 barren ones bluntish at the apex, with generally rounded (rarely 

 pointed) basal lobes and a deep sinus, the fertile ones with the lobes 

 more produced and pointed, texture more or less coriaceous, gla- 

 brous above, somewhat villous beneath ; areoles obliqye, numerous, 

 free veinlets none or very rare. Burnt. Fl. Ind. 231. H. cordifolin 

 {RoxIk), Bedd. F. S. L t. 53. 



South India, common in 

 the plains and on the moun- 

 tains up to nearly 3,000 feet 

 elevation ; East Bengal plains ; 

 Ceylon : Birma. 



(Also in the Philippines.) 



2. Hemionitis Grif- 

 fithii. (Hook. Fil. et Thorns.) 

 Rhizome short creeping; stipes 

 paleaceous and coarsely hir- 

 sute, 8-12 inches long ; fronds 

 12-16 incheslong, 6-ioinches 

 broad, subdeltoid, pinnatifid 

 or pinnate with 2-4 pinna? on 

 each side, which are i-if 

 inch broad, entire or cre- 

 nated, acuminate, texture 

 herbaceous, rachis and both 

 surfaces hairy on the venation 



barren, the veinlets reticulated into copious areoles all soriferous, 

 rarely there are free included veinlets, which are also soriferous. 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 192. Dictyocline Griffithii (Moore), Bedd. F B / 

 '■ 155. 



Khasya, Cherra, 4,000-5000 feet elevation. 



(Also in Formosi.) 



N?£4 6. 



hemionitis Griffithii. 

 {Hook, et T/ioms.) 



main veins prominent, generally 



