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chiefly on the lower half of the pinnule, involucre membranaceous very narrow. Ilooh. Sp. Fil. iii, 165 ■,—Thunh. Frodr. Fl. Cap. p. 172 
Asp. fragrans, Schk. Fil. p. 199 t. 130 6. (not SAvartz) ;— Asp. falsum, Itetz. obs. vi._?A 83 A. adiantoides, Zaw. (non alior) ;— A. prfemorsum, 
Sw. ' FLIn. Occ. iii, 1620 ;— A. Camriense, Willd. S}?. PL v, p. 339 ;— A. geminaria. Bory striatum, Bory -—K. Mascariense, 
Desy. ;— Asp. nigricans, A'"ze. ;— A. tripartitum, ^Z. A. falcatum var. abbreviatum, Bhtme -—A. cuneatum, //oo/;. et. Grev. t. 189 (not 
Lam!/;— A. laceratum, Besv. Mem. Linn. Soc. vi, 278 A. hirsutum, Heyne in Wcdl. Cat. n. 212 ;— A. Mysureuse, Both, in Wall. Cat. 
n. 213 -—A. cicutarium, Boxb. Crypt PL p. 38 Tarachia Browniana, PresL Ep)iinel Bot. p. 260. 
Very abundant about Ootacamund in the Nilgiris and on the higher ranges of other lofty mountains on the western side of tlie 
presidency. 
A very variable species as to the shape of the pinnules and the amount of pubescence. 
PLATE No. CXLIV. 
A— is one of the pinnae of a much cut and hairy variety, very common at Ootacamund (A. prsemorsum var. ^. furcatum, Moore.) 
B— pinnules of a broader-leaved hairy variety. 
21. Asplenium laciniatum. (Don.) Caudex thick, short, ascending, densely clothed with blackish falcate imbricated subulate 
rio-id scales, stipites ctespitose 4-6 inches, brown, and as well as the stramineous rachis partially and deciduously scaly compressed, fronds 
erect a span to a foot long, oblong-acuminate, subcoriac3ous tawny, brown when dry, very opaque, pinnate, the apex narrow, pinnatifici, 
pinnae distinctly petiolate 20-50 horizontal, \ an inch to 1 inch long, semiovate or semiovato— lanceolate, subfalcate auricled at the 
superior base, excised at the inferior, far more than half the length of the pinnae lobed and inciso-serrate, or again pinnate especially 
in the lower half, the rest laciniato— pinnatifid, pinnules cuneate bi-trifid, superior basal one (corresponding to the auricle in the more 
entire pinnae) large broad flabelliform cristato-laciniate, veins distant forked, sori oblong 3-4 radiating in the auricle (or ultimate 
pinnule) towards the apex arranged nearly parallel with the costa. Hook. Si). Fil. m, IQ4: -—Don. Pyrjdr. Nep., p. 8 ■—A.^.-^iA. casspitosum, 
WaU. Cat. n. 217 ;— A. falcatum v. /3. laceratum, Kimze in Linnoea xxiv, 260 Aspl. dapauperatum. Wall. Cat., p. 234. 
Nilgiris— (Schmidt.) 
I have never met with this fern, and the figure here represented is taken from Sir William Hooker's Species Filicum. 
PLATE No. CXLV. {Fig A. variations of the ^n'ftncc.) 
22. Asplenium exiginm. (Beddome.) Caudex, a small erect rhizome with copious fibrous radicles and clothed above with 
numerous subulate black scales, stipites numerous, 3-12 lines long blackish purple more or less furnished with long black subulate scales, 
fronds 1^ inch (often copiously in seed) to 6 in. long, 2^ to 8 lines broad, rachis sulcated above, convex beneath, slightly flexuose, more 
or less extended at the apex into a naked tail and often bearing a young plant, pinn^ numerous, subsessile from a broad base, when young 
more or less hairy (under the microscope) at length glabrous, membranaceous, in the smaller fronds sub-orbicular and simply crenate, in the 
larger ones oblong-lancoolate pinnatifid, below cuneato-excised, the superior and inferior basal auricles 3-4 dentate or crenate, the other 
lobes bi-denatc or entire, superior pinns gradually smaller, uppermost ones often very minute, distinct or spathulate but fertile, (bearing 
1-2 sori) inferior pinnae gradually smaller, subrotund or flabelliform (always fertile) sori of the larger pinnte arranged in a double 
row 1 row of 4-5 on each side of the costa and approximate to it, superior auricle generally bearing 1 diverging sorus, rarely two, some- 
times none, lower auricle generally barren, rarely bearing 1 or very rarely 2 sori — veins obscure, terminating in a thickened point with the 
niagin. 
Nilgiris rare. I have only found it on the banks of the river in the shola above the Kalhatty water-fall, groiving on rocks. It 
would be difficult to give a correct idea of this va?'iable little species fro7n description only, the figures however are very characteristic. It is 
nearly allied to Asp. camptorachis, Kunze, Linn. XXIV, 262, and I should have referred it to thai species, except for the character., 
" soris in 2yarte jnnnce inferioris nuUis," which could not apply to any of the fronds that I have gathered to this sj^ecies. 
PLATE No. CXLVI. 
23. As23lenium Trichomanes. (L.) Caudex short, thick, densely fibrous, stipites, 1-4 or 5 inches long, numerous tufted dark, 
castaneous or black ebeneous glossy marginal, fronds 4-6-12 inches long, linear-lanceolate coriaceo-membranaceous, dark dull-green paler 
beneath pinnated, pinn^ numerous horizontal, scarcely petiolate, lower ones distant and smaller, oval or obovate or oval-oblong, obliquely 
cuneate at the base, superior base rounded, sometimes truncated or even auriculate, sometimes excised at the inferior base, the margin 
