Islands, Griffith, Wallich, Lady Dalhousie, Cuming, n. 240 and 93. Ceylon, 
Gardner, nm. 1158. China, Vachell, Fortune, 169. Fiji Islands, Milne— 
Cultivated in the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew. 
A very universally distributed Fern over the continent of India, 
and adjacent islands, the Malay islands, etc., and well distin- 
guished by the numerous small sori, deeply sunk in a cavity of 
the frond, and arranged in transversely oblique series between 
the costa and the margin. Its long creeping scaly caudices grow 
close to the bark of trees, among mosses, etc., and cling to the 
substances on which they grow by copious fibrous radicles, 
whence Swartz’s original specific name of adnascens. 
Pirate 19. Plants of Niphobolus adnescens, Kaulf., with sterile and fertile 
fronds,—natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond, showing the venation. 
2. Portion of a fertile frond, showing the arrangement of the sori and the stel- 
lated tomentum :—magnified. 3. Sorus cut through, vertically, showing the 
cavity in which the capsules are sunk,—more magnified. 
