MENISCIUM. (See “ Ferns of Southern India,” p. 19.) 
MENISCIUM PARISHII. (Bedd.) Caudex thick creeping furnished with numerous thick wiry roots, stipes 1 foot long, 
fronds deltoid-ovate 10-12 inches long 8-10 inches broad at the base, coriaceo-membranaceous pinnate, pinnæ about 4 pair with an odd - | 
one, sub-opposite sessile or very shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate, sinuate at the margin, long and finely acuminate, 3-5 inches long 1 to 
nearly one inch broad, glabrous above, slightly pubescent (or often at length glabrous) on the costa and costules beneath, terminal pinnæ 
7-8 in. long 2 in. broad often auricled at the base, veinlets 5-7 pair (in the terminal pinnæ 8-10) all joined or the superior 1-2 pair free 
intermediate venule free and clavate in the lower areoles, په دو‎ joined above and forming a continuous a sori occupying nearly the 
whole length of the arched veinlets. 
The specimen figured is from Burmah (Parish.) 
PLATE No, CLXXXIV. 
