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2. Nephrodium unitum. Perak sea level. (Day, King.) 

 Nephr. Haenkeanum, Syn. Fil. p. 291, as to the Ceylon 

 specimen, is this species. 



4. Nephrodium extensum. N. Wakefieldii, Baker, Ann. 

 Bot. 1891, is a synonym here ; it was collected in Mombasa. The 

 second sheet of Wall. Cat, 348 is this species ;. the first sheet is 

 Nephrodium polycarpum. 



Nephrodium procurrens. (Mctt.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 

 2-5 lines in diameter, clothed sparingly with deciduous golden 

 linear scales ; stipes approximate, up to 1^ feet long, a few 

 deciduous scales towards the base ; fronds deltoid to deltoid- 

 lanceolate, ii feet or more long by nearly 1 foot broad ; rachis 

 more or less hairy or nearly glabrous ; pinnae many pair (12-27) 

 patent, the lower ones generally not at all reduced, or the 

 lowest somewhat smaller and deflexed, narrow-linear, acuminate 

 -g inch broad, cut down nearly to the rachis into narrow oblong 

 entire lobes, the lower ones, i.e., those nearest the rachis, often 

 suddenly reduced in size ; texture papyraceo-membranaceous, vary- 

 ing from very hairy to nearly quite glabrous, often furnished 

 beneath with golden pubescence in the way of close pressed hairs 

 or oblong dots more on the lamina than on the veins ; veins 9-12 

 pair, all simple, the lowest pair only anastomosing at a very 

 obtuse angle near the costa of the pinna, with a long excurrent 

 veinlet ; sori medial on the veins ; involucre glabrous or hairy. 

 Mett. Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. 231. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 290. 

 Nephrodium procurrens, Clarke, F. N. I. p. 530, in part only N. 

 parasiticum var. aureum, Clarke I. c.p. 533. Not Wall. Cat. 349, 

 third sheet, as stated in Handbook, that being N. molliusculum. 



Sikkim road from Tonglu (Levinge) ; Salim, 2,000 feet alt. 

 (Levinge) ; Mongpo, 1,000 feet alt. (Clarke, No. 36,221) ; Nunklow, 

 4,000 feet alt. ; Khasia (Clarke, 44,845) ; Nungpo, 1,500 feet alt. ; 

 Khasia (Clarke, 40,696) ; Munipore (Watt) ; Garo and Khasia 

 Hills, 800-2,500 feet alt. (Mann, the more glabrous var.) ; Garo 

 Hills (Mann, the more hairy var.) 



