8o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Nephrodium glaucostipes. (n. sp) Stipes scaly at the 

 base, glaucous as is the main racbis ; fronds 3-4 feet long, pin- 

 nate, the lower pinnae very gradually reduced in size, becoming at 

 first small and hastate or semihastate, and at length mere auricles 

 down to almost the base of the stipe ; central pinna; 5-6 inches 

 long, f to f inches broad, cut down half way into oblong rounded 

 lobes, rather papyraceous in texture, glabrous on both sides, 

 costa above minutely villose, below quite glabrous ; veins 

 about 10 pair, the two lower anastomosing; sori medial, all the 

 veins being soriferous. 



Larut, Perak, 300-400 feet alt, (King's collector, No, 2,046) 

 near heterocarpon, 



Nephrodium perakense. (Bedd.) Caudex small, erect ; 

 stipes slender, villous ; fronds pinnate, 12-14 inches long, 2-5 

 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, central pinnae the largest, lower 

 ones gradually reduced to saggitate auricles, pinnae i|— 2\ inches 

 long by §— \ inch broad, cut down about half way to the rachis into 

 close, rather pointed lobes, texture softly herbaceous ; veins 4-5 

 on each side, simple, the lower pair anastomosing with a long 

 excurrent veinlet ; stipes, rachis and both sides of the frond 

 copiously furnished with long whitish soft hairs ; sori near the 

 apex of the veins. Bedd. Jour, of Bot. 1888,4. Lastrea pera- 

 kensis, Baker, Ann. Bot. 1891. 



Perak, Birch's Hill, 4,000 feet alt. on exposed rocks (Day). 

 In outline similar to Lastrea Beddomei, but of a very soft texture 

 and densely hairy. 



Nephrodium multilineatum. (Wall.) Rhizome erect ; 

 stipes furnished with a few lanceolate scales at the base ; fronds 

 3 feet or more long, ii| feet broad, pinnate, gradually dwindling 

 down nearly to the base of the stipe into small rounded 

 auricles (as in Arbuscula) ; pinnae sessile or shortly petioled, 1 inch 

 broad, very acuminate at the apex, base truncated, the margins 

 cut down only about £-^ towards the costa into rounded lobes, 

 very finely villose on the costa and veins, otherwise glabrous 



