90 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



half an inch broad, sparingly hairy on both sides, rachis and costas 

 with lanceolate, hair-pointed scales, areolae and sori in a single 

 series. Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1885. 



Yunan, Mao-kou-tchang near Tali (near amoenum). 



3. Goniophlebium lachnopus. Goniophlebium Fieldingi- 

 anum [Moore, Ind. Fil. 389) is a synonym. 



3 a. Goniophlebium niponicum var. Wattii. (Bedd.Jour. 

 Bot. 1888.) Rhizome wide-creeping, brittle, glaucous, naked or 

 nearly so ; stipes 3-6 inches long, hairy ; fronds softly hairy 

 8-22 inches long by 2-4 inches broad, pinnatifid to within \ inch 

 of the rachis ; segments ciliated, 20-25 pairs entire or obscurely 

 crenate, oblong from a broad base, blunt at the apex, lowest pair 

 defiexed and slightly reduced ; areolae in a single series ; sori in 

 a single row, nearer the midrib than the margin. 



Koupra, 4,000-5,000 feet alt. (Dr. Watt.) 



Dr. Watt writes that it is a beautiful fern with delicate 

 green leaves, the glaucous rhizome creeping on trees and often 

 suspended in the air ; it only differs from typical niponicum 

 which is from China and Japan, in the rhizome being more 

 glaucous and glabrous and in the indumentum on the fronds 

 being less thick. 



6. Goniophlebium microrhizoma. Also in Yurian. 



7. Goniophlebium molle. Waytamargay, in the Shan 

 States. (Parish.) 



8. Goniophlebium subauriculatum. Perak. (King, Nos. 

 5,740, 8,308.) 



9. Goniophlebium argutum. Mr. Clarke has gathered 

 specimens in Khasya, with the base of the pinnae often subauri- 



