Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 31 



2 7 a. Asplenium germanicum. {Weiss.) " Stipes densely 

 tufted, 2-4 inches long, naked, slender, ebeneous ; fronds 2-3 

 inches long, f— 1 inch broad, lanceolate, cut down to the rachis 

 into a few distant narrow flabellato-cuneate pinnae on each side 

 the lowest of which are again deeply cleft and also slightly 

 inciso-serrate towards the point ; texture coriaceous ; veins 

 obscure subparallel ; sori linear, when mature covering the whole 

 breadth, but falling short of the point of the pinnae." Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 212. 



Kashmir. 



(Also in Scotland and Norway to Hungary and Dalmatia.) 



28. Asplenium Saulii. {Hook.) Var.'pekinense. (Hance.) 

 (= Asp. pekinense, Handbook.) Further specimens have shown 

 that this is only a less compound variety of Saulii. 



30. Asplenium furcatum. Mr. Trimen sends from Passara, 

 1,500 feet alt., in Ceylon, a variety (probably abnormal) with the 

 pinnce cut into filiform pinnules. 



Asplenium fontanum. Simla, 7,000-9,000 feet alt. 

 (Also in Afghanistan.) 



Var. y vunanense. (Franchet.) Stipes densely tufted, 

 short ; fronds 4-6 inches long, linear, J-f inch broad ; pinnules 

 broad, lanceolate, cut down halfway or more to the rachis into 

 several incised, small, oblong, or falcate lobes, the lowest superior 

 one being generally larger and pinnatifid. Asplenium yunanense. 

 Franchet in Bull. Bot. Soc. France^ xxxii. 



Yunan. (Delavay.) Seems scarcely to differ from typical 

 fontanum. 



34. Asplenium varians. Khasia Hills, 4,000 feet. {Mann.) 

 (Also in Afghanistan, 11,000 feet alt.) 



34A. ASPLENIUM MOUPINENSE. {Franchet.) Rhizome short, 

 scales black, linear, long-acuminate ; stipes tufted, castaneous, 



