Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 75 



the veinlets often forked and even pinnate, and occasionally 

 anastomosing towards the margins ; both are very hairy on both 

 sides, densely resino-punctate below on the lamina. If distinct as 

 varieties (which I doubt), the former is the type, and to it belongs 

 Wall. Cat 348, multijugum, 1st sheet in Linnean Herb, (the 2nd 

 sheet being extensum), and Wall. Cat 354, canescens, 1st sheet 

 only. The broader variety has been described by Mr. Baker as 

 Nephrodium microchlamys, Jour. Lin. Soc. Bot xv. 107, from 

 Little Kei Island, and as Lastrea microchlamys by De Vreisse. 



Dr. King's collectors have since collected both forms, No. 371 

 the narrow form, No. 557 the broad form. 



Mesochlaena villosa (Wall.) in the Kew Herb, is only the 

 apex of a frond, collected in Northern India by Hooker and 

 Thomson, 4-5 pair of veins anastomose ; it is probably an un~ 

 described Nephrodium. 



Nephrodium amboinense. (Presl.) Rhizome erect or some- 

 what creeping ; fronds with the short stipe about 2 feet long, 

 rarely more; pinnce 7-25, the lower ones very gradually de- 

 creasing in size and reduced to mere auricles, often sagittate or 

 butterfly-shaped, the others rather close, alternate, or opposite, 

 2-3 inches long by f— § inches broad, sometimes long caudate, 

 quite entire, or with shallow crenatures or lobes, glabrous on both 

 sides except the costa above, or rarely the costa and costules 

 beneath slightly pilose; texture thin, papyraceous; veins 

 generally 5-6, rarely 7-8 on a side ; 2-3 lower pair anastomose ; 

 sori medial on the veins. Nephr. latipinna (Hook.) of the Syn. 

 Fit belongs here ; it has been collected by Dr. King in Perak 

 (No. 8,800), quite running into this species. 



Ceylon ; Birma, Thaliya Zaik, Atharan River (Parish) ; 

 Bhotan (Griffith) ; Concan (Law) ; Mergui (Wight) ; Kusalong, 

 Chittagong (Clarke) ; Nambur Forest (Mann), rhizome erect. 

 Dambu, Garo Hills, 1,000 feet alt. (Mann), rhizome shortly 

 creeping. 



(Also in Borneo and Philippines.) 



