io Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



green ; surfaces naked ; sori copious, placed on the upper side of 

 ultimate lobes ; involucre minute, free, funnel-shaped, with a 

 ciliated entire mouth and long receptacle." Hook. Syn, Fil, p, 

 466. Kuhn, Linn, xxxv. p. 389. 



Perak. {Scortechini. King.) 



(Also near Labuan, in Borneo.) 



21. Trichomanes gemmatum. (J. Sm.) " Rhizome strong, 

 wiry, tomentose, beset with numerous long black wiry fibres ; 

 stipes 1-3 inches long, naked, wiry, winged above; fronds 2-6 inches 

 long, 1-2 inches broad, erect, subrigid, ovate-oblong, bipinnatifid ; 

 main rachis narrowly winged ; pinnae erecto-patent, cut down to 

 a narrowly-winged rachis, lower pinnules deeply forked with 

 subrigid, linear-filiform segments 1^-2 lines long ; cellules large ; 

 sori 1-8 to a pinna, minute axillary ; the tube turbinate stalked ; 

 the mouth nearly truncate." Hook. Syn. Fil. 87. T. cellulosum, 

 Sturm. Hook. Second Cent. Ferns, t. 63. T. filiforme, Sturm. T. 

 longisetum, Brack. T. Asse-Grayi, V. D. B. T. fceniculaceum, 

 Hook. Sp. i. p. 135 (in part). 



Perak. (Scortec/iini.) 



(Also in Java, Philippines, Polynesian Islands, Venezuela, 

 North of Brazil.) 



22. Trichomanes maximum. (BI.) " Rhizome stout, creeping; 

 stipe strong, erect, 3-6 inches long; fronds, 12-18 inches long, 

 6-9 inches broad, ovate, quadripinnatifid ; pinnae erecto-patent, 

 ovate-lanceolate, the largest 4-6 inches long, 2 inches broad ; 

 pinnules lanceolate-deltoid, j inch or more long, cut down to the 

 rachis into segments, which are again deeply pinnatifid, ultimate 

 segment i|— 2 lines long, slightly flattened ; texture subrigid, 

 surface naked, dark-green ; a central costa only in each segment ; 

 sori 2-3 to a pinnule ; involucre cylindrical, the mouth dilated 

 but not 2-lipped." Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 86. T. anceps, var. /3. 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. \. p. 135 t. 40 c. 3. T. intermedium, V. D. B. 



Perak. (Scortechini. King.) 



(Also in Java, Borneo, and Polynesian Islands.) 



