36 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Var. polyspora. Omit this, as it is described below as a 

 species, Schinvptri. 



ioa. Athyrium Schimperi. (A. Br.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 

 scales linear or lanceolate ; stipes 6-9 inches long, stramineous ; 

 fronds lanceolate, gradually reduced below, up to about 18 inches 

 long, 9 inches broad at centre, rachis stramineous, bipinnate- 

 tripinnatifid, or sometimes, from the pinnules being only cut down 

 to a rather broadly- winged rachis, only bipinnatifid ; colour bright 

 green, texture firm, lobes sharply inciso-dentate. Syn. Fil. p. 489. 

 Athy. Filix-foemina var. polyspora. Clarke, F. N. I. Handbook, 

 p. 170, and probably A. flabellulatum {Clarke). Scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from Filix-foemina var. retusa, except in its widely- 

 creeping rootstock. 



(Also in Abyssinia and the Cameroon Mountains.) 



12A. Athyrium pectinatum. (Wall.) Rootstock wide-creep- 

 ing, scaly ; stipes stramineous, often up to 2 feet long ; fronds 

 membranaceous, glabrous, 1-2 feet long by 9-12 inches broad, 

 oblong-lanceolate to deltoid-lanceolate bipinnate (but quadri- 

 pinnatifid), pinnae erecto-patent, much attenuated at the apex ; 

 secondary pinnae ovate-oblong from a broad base, cut down to 

 the fine narrow wing of the tertiary rachis, into 6-8 delicately 

 cut lobes or tertiary pinnae on each side, which are again very 

 finely cut into sharp segments. Wall. Cat. 231. Hook. Sp. Fil. 

 vol. 3, p. 225. 



Mussoorie, 5,300 feet ; Dehra Dun, 2,500 feet ; Dalhousie ; 

 Simla, 6,000-8,000 feet ; Nepal ; Parasnath. 



Var. /3 tenellum. A small fern, lower pinnae often more or 

 less reduced, but except in its more lanceolate form and much 

 smaller size scarcely differing from the type. Bedd. F. S. I. 

 tab, 154. 



Central India, Mts. of the Godavery ; Mahableshwar ; 

 Scinde, Mount Abu ; Munipore. 



