7§ Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



i 6. Nephrodium crixipes. Perak. {Scortechim. King, No. 

 7,126.) In King's specimens, which are very large, the stipe is 

 covered with very large patent scales ; they were collected 

 between 3,000 and 3,500 feet alt. 



17. Nephrodium ferox. Perak. 3,000-4,000 feet alt. {Day, 

 King.) 



18. Nephrodium truxcatum. Add as synonym abortivum 

 Mett. t. 19, fig. 5-7 (see type specimen atKew). Omit the 

 synonym of multilineatum, Wall. Cat. 353, yd sheet from Sin- 

 gapore, but the other sheets belong here. 



Nephrodium sakayense. (Zeiller.) 3-4 feet high, stipes 

 densely tufted ; fronds oval-lanceolate, pinnate ; rachis channelled 

 above and there clothed with hair-like scales and a few larger 

 scales ; pinnae linear-lanceolate acuminate, 8-10 inches long by 

 about I inch broad, cut down more than | into rounded some- 

 what falcate obscurely crenulated lobes, which are furnished on 

 the veins above with whitish needle-like hairs, glabrous but 

 finely glandular below ; veins 8-1 1 pair, the three lower pair 

 anastomosing, the lowest at a very obtuse angle with a long 

 excurrent veinlet ; sori very small, basal on the 4-5 lower veins ; 

 indusium fugacious. Zeiller, Bull. Boi. Soc. France, vol. xxxii./. 74. 



In the Sakaye country, valley of the Kiang River, near the 

 Riam Mountain, Perak. I have only seen two pinnae ; the 

 description is partly taken from Zeiller's ; it is only the lowest 

 pair of veins that anastomose with each other, the next two pair 

 anastomose with the spurious vein formed by the membrane 

 filling up the lower part of the sinus. 



Nephrodium heterocarpox. {Bl.) Rhizome strong 

 erect ; stipes tufted, 1-2 feet long, slender, villose ; fronds 2-3 

 feet long, 8-14 inches broad, the fertile often contracted and 

 sometimes with elongated stipes ; pinnae 5-6 inches long, f inch 

 broad, cut down J or half towards rachis into linear oblong 

 subfalcate or truncated entire lobes, lower pinnae abruptly dwarfed 



