1254 BENGAL PLANTS. [Nephrodium. 
es 
eepi rn, with large fronds 3 feet long. 
2804. Smmootes VARIOLOSUM Bak. Aspidiwm variolosum 
he Oe BOs 
eae Nagpur; E. Bengal; Tippera; Chittagong. 
A tufted fern ; fronds 2-3 feet lon 
2805. NEPHRODIUM POLYMORPHUM Bak. Aspidiwm polymorphum 
F. I. C. 218. 
Chittagong. 
A tufted fern ; fronds 1-4 feet long. é 
2806. Nepnroprum Simonsit Bak. Aspidiwm Simonsit F. 1.C. 
218 
Chittagong. 
A tufted fern ; fronds 1-4 feet long. 
2807. NEPHRODIUM HETEROSORUM Bak. Aspidiwm heterocarpum 
F. T.-C. 219. 
Chittagong. 
A tall, gregarious, creeping fern, in wet places ; fronds 
6 feet high. 
2808. ps oe cIcutarium Bak. Aspidiwm cicutarvum 
i. ae. splenium cicutarium F. 1. 756 (Ed. 
‘A B. C.). 
Chota Nagpur; Orissa. 
A large, tufted fern. 
1139. Nephrolepis Schott. 
Herbs, with wiry, tufted stipes from a short or long, wity root- 
stock, often emitting wiry fibres; fronds simply pinnate, with the 
inne articulating at the base and often deciduous from old 
surface; veins all free. Sori round, arising from the apex of the 
upper branch of a vein, generally enacted! indusium reniform 
or roundish 
crowded, 
per side, 
ordifolia. 
Sori about half-way between the midrib and the margin; pinn® 
usually imbricating, with a large, crenated, basal auricle on me 
and with a rounded or cordate, lower basal angle ....-.-.---+++7+*" 
Sori submarginal; pinne close, ie a narrow basal he on upper 
side, and a smaller rounded one below :— 
Rhizome suber OG ohn oe ee eo Sieg wba cawase nears” 
Rhizome climbing, sometimes 50 feet long .....-.1.-+++e1er709"" 
