Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 469 



South India, Western forests in swampy places up to 3,000 

 feet elevation ; Ceylon, about Colombo and other parts of Western 

 and Southern provinces ; North India, Bengal plains to Assam and 

 Cachar; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Tropical Australia, Malay Islands, Philippines and 

 New Caledonia.) 



GENUS XCVIII.— BOTRYCHIUM. (Sw.) 



(Botrys, a bunch ; fructification like a bunch of grapes.) 



Capsules sessile, arranged in two rows, on the face of spikes which 

 form a compound panicle ; veins forked, free ; fronds erect, the 

 sterile segments foliaceous, deltoid, bi-tripinnat- 

 ifidly compound, rarely pinnate ; fertile segments 

 rachiform, compound paniculate. 



1. Botrychium Lunaria. (Z. wider Os- 

 munda.) Rhizome small, scarcely thickened, 

 enclosed by brown sheaths furnished with stoutish 

 fleshy brittle branched roots; stipes erect, smooth, 

 cylindrical, hollow, succulent, vernation plicate or N°293. 

 folded straight, the fertile branch clasped by the botrychium 

 sterile before unfolding, fronds solitary, 3-10 Lunaria. (L.) 

 inches high, firm, stout fleshy, sterile branch oblong, pinnate smooth, 

 pinnae 4-7 pairs flabellate or lunate, the margins crenate (rarely 

 partially fertile) fertile branch pinnate or bipinnate ; venation (barren 

 pinnae) flabellately-furcate, i.e. the vein enters at the base and is re- 

 peatedly forked, veins not quite extending to the margin. Linn. Sp. 

 PL 15 19. Sw. Syn. Fil. 171. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 208. 



North India, Sikkim, Lachen, 11,000-13,000 feet elevation, 

 Kumaon, 12,000 feet. 



(Also the arctic and cold temperate zone, extending to South 

 Europe ; Patagonia ; Australia.) 



2. BOTRYCHIUM DAUCIFOLIUM. {Wall.) Stipes stout, 6-12 



