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NOTES ON INDIAN FERNS. 
By Cou. R. H. Beppome, F.L.S. 
Ar page 5 of the Supplement to the Ferns of British India 
I oe the two ferns, Deesnonye Saag and Kingi by mistake 
Schizolona Gueriniana Gaud. - / haeag the Moluccas, age from 
Malacca, and must be eliminated from the ferns of British India. 
sae ipa ee Oe Further specimens fone this 
to be only a form of Ad. hirtu 
A, ome guum Kaulf. The ‘Nilgini and Anamallay forn figured at 
Plate , F.S.1., should remain under this name; the typical 
nach eal with long, narrow, very finely caudate pinne, and sori 
closely pressed against the midrib, has age been found (within our 
limits) in the Mal nd Peninsula, and not been figured by me; 
contiguum is nearer in its sori to Sasa than to faleatum 
Diplazium cerabyllve Baker, This should be omitted from 
our sci the Penang fern being certainly only tomentosum.- 
Grijithit Moore, Ind. Fil. 331. “Fronds deltoid, pinnate, 
ubcoriaceous; pinne curved or ascending, the lower 
n 
distinctly stipitate, elongate- triangular, acuminate, the upper 
oblong-acuminate, sessile, the uppermost confluent, forming an 
acuminated pinnatifid apex; pinnules oblong, falcate, subauriculate 
acute, crenate-serrate, those of the lower pinne slightly unequal ; 
i e near the cos 
12-15 in. long, and nearly as much in width across the base.” 
is Moore’s excellent description of this fern. It has 
(N 186 & 45594); also abundantly by G. Mann in the same 
locality, and by Jerdon and Oldham. (Mettenius’s and Hooker’s 
types of Grifithii are the fern I figured under that name a 
Tab w referred to wnbrosum var. multicaudatum, 
hence much ‘confusion until Mr. Mann unrayelled it in the 
wai ok m.) It is the fern referred to by me under ep aie at 
page 188 of the Handbook. Mr. Clarke has referred it to sylvaticum, 
and Mt Bakes to latifolium; it is nearest to ralifobiserk from which 
its comparatively small, short, very deltoid fronds sufficiently dis- 
. Ma 
Nambur Forest, Assam: with the cn tees of the pinne as in the 
Perak specimens, rather more cut than in §. Indian an specimens, but 
less so than in Thwaites’s Ceylon var. pacbichins C. P. 8892. 
Nephrodium evolutum var. B., page 77, Fern Saeitoiadi Copious 
specimens of this fern from Mr. Mann prove it to be quite distinct 
from evolutum, so I separate it as N. Gustavi (after Mr. G. Mann) ; 
re ilar to those of multilineatum var. assamicum 
texture, &c., and 2-8 pairs of veins anastomose, 2-3 
lower pinne are distant and much reduc size, or more rarely 
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