72 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



which clearly show the involucres, and I find that it is Blume's 

 lineatum, included at Kew under glandulosum, to which it is 

 somewhat allied in its meniscioid tendency, but differs by its 

 more numerous, narrower and tapering pinnae, it has an entirely 

 different habit the sterile fronds having the aspect of a Polybotrya. 



10. Nephrodium urophyllum. The synonym of Asp. 

 lineatum {Bl.) must be omitted here. N. lineatum, Hook. Sj>. 

 Fi/., is partly this fern and partly Blume's plant. N. lineatum, 

 Bedd. F. N. I. tab. cxxxiii., is this plant. 



Meniscium cuspidatum must be entered here as a synonym 

 {vide remarks under that species), or as a meniscioid variety ; the 

 form of that fern with very red stipe and rachis (called rubens 

 by Clarke), which is the extreme meniscioid variety, is also found 

 in Fiji. 



I refer here Nephrodium asperum (Blume), which is made a 

 synonym of N. glandulosum in the Syn. Fil. ; it appears to me 

 only to differ in having the involucre much more prominent 

 and the margins more serrated ; I have the same fern from 

 Khasia, collected by Oldham, figured at tab. cxxxii., F. B. I., 

 as glandulosum, but afterwards referred to urophyllum in Hand- 

 book ; I may be wrong in referring it here, and it may have 

 to stand under Blume's name, but in any case it is more allied 

 to urophyllum than to glandulosum, and it is found in the 

 Khasia Hills as well as in Java, typical glandulosum not being 

 known from Northern India. 



Var. Pinwillei. Pinnae lanceolate, very broad in the middle, 

 considerably attenuated at both ends, often long caudate at the 

 apex, margins rather sharply serrated. Goniopteris] Pinwillei, 

 Baker, Ann. Bot. v. 46. 



Malacca {Pinwill.) ; Perak {Day). In my List of Mr. Day's 

 plants I referred this to Meniscium cuspidatum ; in some of Mr. 

 Day's specimens the pinnae are singularly like the leaves of the 

 Spanish chestnut ; this serrated variety is also found in Borneo, 

 Aneitium, Sulu, and Hong-Kong. 



