Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 8i 



on both sides ; veins about seven pair, of which 5-6 anasto- 

 mose ; sori medial, involucre persistent. Wall. Cat. 353, yd 

 sheet, in Linn. Herd., also in Kew Herb, as far as the Penang 

 plant is concerned. Mett. Farugatt, p. 108. Nephr. mego- 

 phyllum, Met. Mag. Mus. Bot. 233, not multilineatum [Mett.), 

 which is aridum. Nephrodium pennigerum (Bl.). 



Penang Hill and Perak ( Wallick, Day. King, No. 1,831) ; 

 Assam {Mann). This is the Nephrodium eminens in my list 

 of Mr. Day's Perak plants, but not Mr. Baker's species. 

 Wallich's sheet of the Penang fern (not showing the base of 

 the frond or the auricles) was referred by Sir W. Hooker in 

 his Sp. Fil. and also in the Syn. Fil. to pennigerum. Other 

 examples from the Malay Peninsula, Java, &c, are put into 

 truncatum at Kew ; it differs from both in its very prominent 

 auricles, cutting, and venation. The pinnae in Mann's Assam 

 plant are rather deeper cut than in the Malay fern, and only 

 3-4 veins anastomose, so I may be wrong in referring it here. 



(Also in Java and Sumatra, the Sumatran specimens more 

 pubescent than those from the Malay Peninsula and Java.) 



4. Nephrolepis acuta. Perak sea level. [Day. King, 

 No. 165 and 4,955.) Fronds 10 feet long, pinnae 8-9 inches long. 



6. Nephrolepis davallioides. (Km.) '■ Caudex short, 

 stoloniferous ; stipes tufted, 1 foot or more long, scaly towards 

 the base ; fronds narrow lanceolate drooping, 2-3 feet long, I 

 foot or more broad ; lower pinnae barren, 3-8 inches long, ^-1 inch 

 broad ; the apex acuminate, the edge inciso-crenate to a depth of 1 

 line or less ; fertile pinnae narrower, the lobes deeper and bear- 

 ing each a single sorus at the point ; texture sub-coriaceous ; 

 rachis furfuraceous, both sides nearly naked ; involucre reniform." 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 302. Ophioglossum acuminatum (flout.) 



Perak, 3,000-5,000 feet alt. (Day. Scorlechini. King, Nos» 

 6.325, and 5,007 a form or variety with the fertile pinnae not 

 contracted.) 



(Also in Java.; 



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