Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 79 



or only represented by glands ; texture coriaceo-herbaceous, 

 rachis villose, and under surface glandular, the veins above often 

 with a few long white hairs ; veinlets 8-10 (in the contracted 

 fertile only five), the lowest pair only anastomosing, with an ex- 

 current veinlet, all more or less strigose beneath as is the partial 

 rachis ; sori medial, or sometimes near the base of the veinlets. 

 S)'ii. Fil. 293 ; Bl. Fil.Jav. p. 155. 



Malacca in ditches (Pinwill), Malay Peninsula (Sir W. Norn's). 

 Perak, 2,500-3,000 feet alt. (King, No. 6,345). Singapore, Green 

 Hill (Hullett). 



Nephrodium tectum. (Wall.) Rhizome strong erect ; 

 stipes densely tufted ; fronds deltoid or somewhat lanceolate, 

 12-15 inches long, 6-7 inches broad ; pinnae cut down f's or 

 more towards the rachis into entire slightly falcate segments, 

 lowest pinnae scarcely or not at all reduced, but gradually deflexed 

 or the 2-3 lower pair rather suddenly reduced and much deflexed, 

 but not distant from the others ; texture firm herbaceous, costa 

 midrib and lamina on both sides rather densely covered with 

 long white needle-like hairs ; veins 7-8 pair the lowest only 

 anastomosing at a very obtuse angle (as in procurrens) with a 

 long excurrent veinlet ; sori on nearly all the veins, or often 

 confined to the lowest pair nearly apical ; indusium often very 

 hairy. Wall. Cat. 394 and Cat. 354 in part pasted down, with 

 the apex of a frond of another species of the genus — Nephrodium 

 molle var. didymosorum. (Parish.) Handbook, 279. (Rhizome 

 incorrectly described.) 



Singapore ( Wallich) ; Tenasserim (Parish) ; Perak (King, Nos. 

 1,205 and 8,757). 



One of King's examples has the rhizome, which is erect 

 and strong, and quite unlike that of procurrens ; the venation is 

 that of procurrens (not of molle) only there are fewer veins. 

 Wallich's and Parish's specimens are quite deltoid ; King's have 

 generally 2-3 of the lower pinme reduced and deflexed, but I 

 believe they belong to the same species. 



