_ Hemionitis.| POLYPODIACE®. 1259 
1142, Meniscium Schreb. 
Herbs, with tufted stipes or creeping rhizome ; fronds simple or 
pinnate ; veins pinnate, the citi veinlets of a group joining the 
corresponding veinlets of ¢ ous groups. ort oblong or 
linear, on the connivent, ‘bana veinlets ; indusiwm absent. 
0. MENISCcIUM TRIPHYLLUM Sw.; F. I. C. 897 
N. Bengal, Duars ; Chittego ng. 
A gregarious, wide-creeping fern. 
1143. Vittaria Sm. 
_Herbs, usually epiphytic ; rhizome short or elongated; fronds 
Smuple, narrow, grassy; veins free. Sort in continuous marginal 
. or slightly intramarginal lines ; preeiri absent. 
2831. ce ELONGATA Sw.; F. I. C. 404. Pteris angustifolia 
fii 7% 
C. sen E. Beaigals Sundribuns; Chittagong. 
An epiphytic grassy fern, with a creeping rhizome. 
1144, Dymoglossum Presl. 
Small, eae creeping ferns, with dimorphic, articulate 
_ fronds, sterile ovate or oblong, fertile linear; veins obscure, anas- 
tomosing ; areolz with copious, free veinlets. Sori linear, scarcely 
‘Immersed, central or submarginal, often Jeeetnetind confluent and 
nearly ptt under surface of frond ; 
MOGLOSSUM PILOSELLOIDES a. F:1.C. 411. Pieris 
lasatloides dure & ie 0. 3. kh. 
undribuns; Chitt 
A small, creeping Sotphe te with dimorphic fronds. 
1145. Hemionitis Linn. 
Small, terrestrial ferns, with usually tufted stipes, not articu- 
lating with caudex ; Fronds simple, pinnatifid or pinnate; veins 
Sopiously anastomosing. Sori continuous along all the veins of 
the fertile fronds; free veinlets in the areole rare, when present 
these also soriferous s; indusiwm absent 
2833. Hemionitis ARiFoLIA Bedd.; F. I. C. 413. H. cordifolia 
F., I. 756 (Ed. C. B. C.). 
In most of the provinces. 
A small, tufted fern, with cordate-hastate fronds, Beng. 
Chakuliya, 
