NEPHRODIUM. (See “ Ferns of Southern India,” p. 29.) 
N EPHRODIUM DIDYMOSORUM. | (Parish.) Caudex ? stipes a span or more long, fronds soft, membranaceous 1 foot or 
more long, all over pubescent with long weak hairs, oblongo-lanceolate pinnated pinnatifid at the apex, pinnæ numerous horizontal scarcely 
petiolate (lowest pair deflexed) lanceolate acuminate broader at the base, superior basal segment being considerably larger than the 
others, 3-4 inches long, J to nearly 1 inch broad, pinnatifid 3 to ¿ds down to the rachis, segments very obtuse crenated, lowest pair of 
veins uniting and sending out a veinlet which is prolonged to the sinus of the segment, the rest free simple, sori one pair at the junc- 
tion of the two basal veins, none on the segments, ظ‎ 
The drawing is taken from a solitary specimen collected by Mr, Parish in Birmah, 
it is probably only a form of N. molle (Desv.) as I find fronds of Nephrodium extensum vary 
solitary twin sori at the junction of the lower veins) whilst other fronds on the same 
plant is constant in this habit of seeding, it is an interesting variety. 
and forwarded to me under the above name, 
‘minor with the same peculiar seeding (viz: 
plant are in full seed, (vide pl, CCI.) if Mr, Parish’g 
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