Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 6g 



has probably caused it to be overlooked, though in a well- 

 frequented road. In this fern it is the superior lower lobe that is 

 enlarged, in the Gymnogramme the inferior, or sometimes both. 



Nephrodium namburense. (n. sp.) Rhizome thin wiry, 

 wide-creeping, i-i-g- lines in diameter ; stipes distant, up to 12 

 inches long ; fronds subdeltoid, about 8-15 inches long by si 

 broad, generally no reduction of the lower pinnae, but sometimes 

 1, rarely 2 lower pair distant and reduced, main rachis densely 

 strigose, with curled hair-like scales ; pinnae often few, 3-6 

 sometimes 8-10 pair, patent, lanceolate from a square base, which 

 is parallel with the rachis, acuminate, f to f inch broad, cut 

 down about \ or less into falcate segments, the lowest superior 

 one often somewhat enlarged, texture herbaceous, glabrous above 

 except the costas, and below except the costas and main veins ; 

 veins about 10 pair, all simple, the 3-4 lower (rarely only 2) 

 anastomosing, the lowest at a very obtuse angle ; sori medial on 

 the veins. 



Assam, on the Nagore road, Nambur Forest, 4 miles from 

 Ohgori ; also at Bor-Bheel, Upper Dahing Forest. (G. Mann.) 



Nearest to molle, from which its remarkable rhizome, and 

 distant stipes, easily distinguish it, it also differs in its generally 

 deltoid form, and very strigose rachis ; its venation readily dis^ 

 tinguishes it from procurrens. 



8. Nephrodium aridum. Chamba (McDoncll). Perak- 

 {King, No, 1,025). 



Nephrodium papyraceum. (n. sp.) Rhizome strong, wide 

 creeping, \ inch diameter ; stipes distant up to 4 feet long, 

 glabrous or nearly so, furnished with a few small distant abortive 

 auricles below the frond ; fronds pinnate, 3-4 feet long ; pinnae 

 (3-4 of the lower ones suddenly reduced and small) about 1 foot 

 long, 1 inch broad, glabrous and shining above except the slightly 

 pubescent costa, and below except a slight glandular pubescence 

 on the raised veins, papyraceous or papyracco-coriaceous in texture, 



