168 



ASPIDIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 40.) 



« i • ,1 ■ A ^ IDIUM SlNG ^°^NUM. (Wall.) Cauda, more or less creeping very fibrous, stipites approximate sometimes tufted 

 6-12-14 inches long sparsely setosely subalato -paleaceous, fronds 6-12 inches long firm membranaceo-coriaceous (dark brown when dry) 

 ovate or oblong, much acuminated at the apex, suddenly or generally long, deeurrent at the base quite entire, costa prominent beneath 

 primary veins horizontally patent subfalcate united by transverse arched ones, the areoles of which enclose netted veinlets the ultimate 

 ones free ; sori forming transverse arched lines in double rows between secondary (transverse) veins about six in each row, involucres 

 orbicular peltate Hook * A, xv. 42. Wall. Ca, n. 374 ;-Podopelti S , Fee. Gen. Fil. p . 286 . , 23 A. ;-Polypodium Phyllitidi, 

 dioxb. m Calc. Joum. Sat. Hist. iv. p. 483, ' J 



The specimen figured is from Singapore. 



Hab. Malay Islands, Singapore, Penang, Malacca. 



PLATE No. CLXVIII. 



