Ferns of British India and Ceylon. ii 



23. Trichomanes pluma. (Hook.) " Rhizome short, creep- 

 ing, clothed with dense minute fibrillose bright-brown scales ; 

 stipe 2-4 inches long, terete, wiry ; fronds lanceolate, 4-6 inches 

 long, i-ij inches broad decompound; rachis stiff, terete through- 

 out; pinnae crowded, 20-30-jugate spreading, under -J inch broad ; 

 lower pinnules sparsely pinnatifid, cut into distant bristle-like 

 dichotomously-forked lobes, -|-J inch long, which spread in all 

 directions ; sori few placed near base of upper pinnae ; involucre 

 under -J- line long, stalked, with a funnel-shaped tube, truncate 

 mouth, and very long receptacle." Hook. Syn. Fil. 466. Ic, 

 tab. 997. 



Perak. (Scortechini.) 

 (Also in the Malay Islands.) 



24. Trichomanes apiifolium. (Prcsl.) Stipes tufted, 4-6 

 inches long, strong, erect, more or less fibrillose, and the tuft 

 densely so at the crown ; fronds 9-] 8 inches long, 4-8 inches 

 broad, ovate, quadripinnatifid, the main rachis only slightly 

 winged towards the apex ; lower pinnae 4-6 inches long, i-ii 

 inch broad, lanceolate acuminate ; pinnules with numerous 

 segments, which are again cut down into slightly flattened 

 ultimate divisions about 1 line long ; texture subrigid, surface 

 naked, a single costa only in each segment ; sori 2-12 to a 

 pinnule, small, the involucre short turbinate. Syn. Fil. p. 86. 



Mount Ophir, Malacca. (Dr. King^s collectors.) 

 (Also in Java, Philippines, Polynesian Islands, and Norfolk 

 Island.) 



25. Trichomanes parviflorum. (Pair.) Stipes nearly 

 tufted, erect, wiry, 2-4 inches long, naked or tomentose ; fronds 

 4-8 inches long, 1^—3 inch broad, erect, rigid, ovate-lanceolate-; 

 main rachis naked or slightly winged above; lower pinnae spread- 

 ing or erecto-patent, 1— 1 1 inch long, cut down quite or nearly 

 to the rachis ; pinnules regularly pinnatifid, with simple or forked 

 linear filiform segments I— 1$ lines long ; texture subcoriaceous ; 



