Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 99 



ORDER XI.— GRAMMITIDEiE. 



GENUS LXVL— NOTHOCHL^ENA. (NOT 

 NOTHOL^ENA.) 



1. Monogramme paradoxa. Perak, (ScortechW,) 

 1. Leptogramme Totta. Chumba ; Kullu ; Simla, 



2A. Leptogramme Levingii. [Clarke) Rhizome slender, 

 wide-creeping, furnished with deciduous, lanceolate, mem- 

 branaceous scales ; stipe naked, up to 1 foot long, stramineous, 

 with a dark base ; fronds lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, t-i-| 

 feet long, 3-5^- inches broad at the middle, narrowed at the 

 base, pinnate ; the pinnae lanceolate, sessile, j-f inch broad, cut 

 down nearly to the rachis into oblong more or less crenated 

 segments, some of the lower pinnae generally distant and 

 broader, with some of the segments more or less irregularly 

 pinnatifld ; texture membranous, both sides hairy, the under 

 surface with needle-like weak hairs ; veins erecto-patent, simple 

 or forked ; sori generally globose, sometimes oblong, nearer 

 the margin than the midrib. Baker, Ann. Bot. vol. v. p. 483. 

 Gymnogramme aurita var. Levingii, Beddome^s Handbook, p. 377, 



Chumba {McDonnell) ; Simla (Watt, &c.) 



Gymnogramme Delayayi. (Baker.) Rhizome erect or 

 short-creeping, densely covered with hair-like orange scales ; 

 stipes tufted, about 3 inches long, black shining, but slightly 

 scaly; fronds oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 inches long, simply pinnate; 

 pinnae about 12 sub-opposite pair, narrow-oblong |—§ inch long 

 by less than \ inch bread, glabrous above, densely covered beneath 

 with closely packed lanceolate orange scales, texture coriaceous; 

 veins hidden once or twice forked; sori oblique hidden beneath 

 the bcale.^. Ann. Bot. v. 484. 



Yunan (Delavay). 



