Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 453 



10-15 inches long by 2-3 lines broad, bearing a digitate fertile crest at 

 the apex ; crest 8-14, parted to the base, segments 1 inch long by a 

 line broad; sori in 4 series (i.e., 2 series each side the costa). 

 Sw. Sy7i. Fil. 150, 380, /. 4. Bedd. F. S. I. 268. 



North India, Khasya and Chittagong ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Islands ; Fiji and Philippines.) 



GENUS XCL— ANEMIA. (Sw.) 



(From aneimon, naked — the naked spikes.) 



Capsules small, very abundant, forming a copiously branched 

 panicle quite distinct from the leafy part of the frond ; fronds pinnate 

 or bi-tripinnatifid ; veins free. 



1. Anemia tomentosa. (Sw.) Stipes 6-12 inches long 

 strong, erect, clothed with deciduous ferruginous hairs ; fronds ter- 

 nately divided, the two lateral branches fertile, the terminal one spread- 

 ing, sterile bipinnate, with the pinnules variously lobed or pinnatifid, 

 texture herbaceous, rachis and both surfaces pilose ; veins fine, fla- 

 bellate. Hook. Syn. Fil. 433. Anemia Wightiana (Gard.), Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 66. 



South India, Nilgiris (Sispara ghat), Anamallays, Pulney Hills, 

 Travancore Hills, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation. 



('Also in Mexico, Peru and West Indies.) 



GENUS XCII.— LYGODIUM. (Sw.) 



(Lygodes, flexible — the climbing habit.) 



Capsules solitary (or casually in pairs), in the axils of large im- 

 bricated clasping involucres, which form spikes either in separate 

 pinnse or in lax rows along the edge of the leafy ones ; fronds scan- 

 dent, pinna: conjugate palmate-lobed, pinnatifid or pinnate ; veins 

 forked, free. 



