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6. Xephrodium 2/7-opinquum (Br.) Caudex very long, creeping sometimes copiously, and luxuriantly rooting, stipites varying 
much in length from 1-2 feet, fronds sub-coriaceous 1-2 feet long, glabrous, or often more or less pubescent, resinoso glandulose, especially 
beneath, reddish-brown when dry, rather glossy, pinnated, pinnse numerous, shortly petiolate, 3-5 inches long, | to ^ an inch or more 
wide, linear-lanceolate, acute rather than acuminate, sometimes broader and cuneate at the base, sometimes contracted, pinnatifid ird or 
i down to the costa, the segments rounded or ovate, obtuse or acute, veinlets curved, one or two of the lowest opposite pair united, sori 
near the middle of the veins, or sub-marginal, sometimes confined to the lobes, sometimes extending to the disk, and not unfrequently form- 
ing a continuous intramarginal line following the course of the sinuses, the whole length of the pinnie, involucres reniform, setose. Ilook. 
>Sp. Fil, iv. 2'. 79 Aspidium unitum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 47 ; — Asp. gongylodes, Schk. Fil. p, 193 ; — Asp. Pohlianum, Fr, and Kze. ; — 
A. obtusatum, Wilhl. Sp. Fl. v.^). 241 Nephrodium unitum, Br. Frod. Fil. Nov. Roll. p. 148 ;— Polypodium secundum, Wall. Cat. n. 
301 ; — Neph, paludosuni, Liehm—Fil. Mex- p. 123 ; — Filix Zeylan, denticul, non ramosa. Burvi, Zeyl, p. 98 t. 44/. 1. 
Anamallays — 3,000 feet in the Karambe-Vile (a large swamp) Elev. 2,500— Malabar, in wells. 
PLATE No. LXXXIX, 
7. Nephrodium terminans (J. Smith) Caudex creeping scaly, stipes 1-2 feet long, a little scaly at the base, frond about the 
same length, sub-menibranaceous, oblong or ovato-oblong, acuminate, pinnate, terminal pinnaj, generally free but often deeply pinnatifid, 
lateral pinnae 4-8 inches long patent, scarcely petiolate from a broad (or sometimes contracted) base linear oblong finely acuminated, pin- 
natifid about halfway down towards the costa, with numerous subovate rather acute slightly falcate segments, lowest pair of veinlets 
united below the sinuses, sori confined to the segments, involucres reniform. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. "73 ; — Asp. terminans. Wall, Cat. n. 
386 ; — Nephrodium Cumingii. J. Smith. Hooker journ. Bot. iii. j}- 411 ; — Neph. conioneuron. Fee. Gen. Fil, 308 ;— Lastrea Malaccensis, Fr. 
Epim. Bot. p, 35 ;— Asp. Schwenkii /3. Bl. in Hb. Hook. Aspidium unitum, Hook, et Ami. Bot. of Beech. Voy. 
Anamallays— In moist forests and outskirts of Sholas 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XC. 
* * * Veins free. 
Oleandea, Cavanilles Fradect (1801) 252. 
(Neuronia, Don. Ophiopteris, Eeinwardt ;— Aspidii sp. Auct ;— Hypopeltidis sp. Bory Polypodli sp. Auct). 
Sori indusiate, globose, approximate to the costa, the receptacles therefore sub-basal on the veins or venules. Indusium reniform, 
affixed at the sinus. Veins simple or forked from a central costa ; venules parallel, unisoriferous dorsally near their base, their apices 
curved forwards, and connivent with the thickened margin. 
Fronds simple, sub-membranaceous or sub-coriaceous, stipes nodoso-articulate. Ilhizome creeping or erect and frutescent. — 
(Moore). 
1. Oleandra neriiformis, (Cav.) Caudices sub-erect or scandent, stout, woody, knotted, copiously rooting below, densely clothed 
with appressed imbricate subulate scales, at first ferruginous then diaphanous at length deciduous, or leaving only small black spots, the 
remains of the persistent scales ; fronds G inches to \\ foot long, scattered or often in terminal whorls, lanceolate, acuminate, generally 
attenuated at the base, 1 to 2 inches broad, coriaceous and glossy, or firm-membranaceous, glabrous or partially villous or pubescent on 
the veins and costa and ciliated on the margin ; petiole 2 lines to 1 inch long, jointed very near the base, glabrous or setose or scaly, son 
in a continuous but fiexuose line near the costa— //oo/.-. sp. Fil. iv. 156 ; — Aspidium neriiforme, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. p. 42 ; — Asp. Wallichianum. 
Belanger et. Bory Fl. Ind. Or Crypt, p. 51. t. 9 ; — Asp. articulatura, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. p. 42 ; — Oleandra mollis. Fresl. ; — Oleandra 
hirtelln, Mir/, in Schk. Fil. Suppl. t. 129. 
Anamallays rare — Western slopes of Nilgiris — Piavines in Mr. Ouchterlony's valley, 5,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. XCL 
Nephrolepis, Schott. Gen, Fil. {t. 3.) 
(Nephrodium, Link ; — Lepidoneuron, Fee. — Aspidii sp. Aiict. ; — Nephrodii sp. Auct. ; — Hypopeltidis sp. Bory ; — Polypodii 
sp. Auct. Davallise sp. Auct. ;— Tectarias sp. Cavanilles Polystichi sp. Auct. Anthropteridis sp. J. Smith. 
Sori indusiate, rotundate ; the rec.ej)tacles terminal on the lower anterior venules, Indusiwn rotundato-cordato-reniform. 
afiixod at the sinus or sub-reniform affixed oblique-transversely by the arcuate posterior margin. Veins pinnato-furcate from .i 
central costa ; venules direct free, thickened at the apices, 
