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Fil. iv. 62. Neplirodium aristatnm Hook. Goniopteris aristata, Fee ; — Anisocampium Cuiiiingianum, Fr. Epimd. Bot. p. 58 
Cyclodium Cumingiamim, Moore ; — Aspidium Otaria, Kunze, Herb. Metten. Aspid. p. 34. 
A fern of doubtful genus, the involucres are more like those of Athyrium, in the Aspleniece, them o/ the Aspidiea^. 
Anamallays — abundant in the Teak forests 2,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. Yeddicarrah and the plains of Malabar, about the 
foot of the Carcoor pass. 
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* * Veins conniventli/ anastomosing. 
Neprodium, Richard, Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. 11—266 (redact.) 
(Aspidium, iiwartz in part ; Auctoruni Oyclosorus, Link ; — Abacopteris, Fee ; — Plectochlaena, Fee ; — Proneplirium, Presl. ; 
— Arsenopteris, Webb, et Berthelot in part ; — Polypodii Sp. Auctorum ; — Lastrea, Sp. Auct. ; — Cyclodii, Sp. Auct. ; — ) 
Sori indusiate, globose ; the receptacles medial on the venules. Indusiuni reniform, affixed at the -sinus — Veins (of pinnte) 
pinnate from a central costa, prominent ; vemdes simple, the lower pair or more, sometimes all, angularly cunnivent— anastomosing, 
producing from the angle an excurrent veinlet, -which (in deeply pinnatifid pinnae) is free or (in less divided pinn£e) joins the next 
anastomosed angle. 
Fronds simple, pinnatifid, pinnate or pinnato-pinnatifid, herbaceous or sub-coriaceous. Spore-cases sometimes echinate 
Rhizome short, erectish, or slowly creeping — (Moore). ■ 
1. Nephrodium molle. (Desvaux.) Caudex stout, horizontal, short, densely rooting, stipites a span to a foot and more long, 
fronds rather soft-membranaceous 1-2 feet long, more or less pubescent ; oblong-lanceolate, abrupt at the base (or sometimes much 
attenuated there with distant dwarfed pinufe) pinnated, pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae numerous, hoi-izontal, sessile, oblong, and generally 
broadest at the base, or lanceolate, more or less acuminate 3-5 inches long, pinnatifid more or less deeply, the segments semi-ovate, 
obtuse or oblong a little falcate, lowest pair of veinlets, uniting and sending out a veinlet which is prolonged to the sinus of the segment.? 
the rest free, simple rarely forked, sori in two rows situated near the middle of the free veinlets or at the junction of the two basal ones' 
involucres reniform more or less villous — Hooker, Sp. Fil. iv. 67. — Aspidium appendiculatum, Wall, in part, — Asp. parasiticum. Wall. 
Cat. n. 2239— Polypodium nemorale. Wall. Cat. n. 1317— Polyp. moUusculum, Wall. Cat. 332— Asp. Canescens, Wall. Cat. 354— 
Asp. nymphale, Forst. prod. p. 81 — Nephrodium Helsinbergii, Pr. — Polypodium diversifrons, Kl, and Kuazc—Ks^. patens, Link. 
One of the commonest ferns in India. 
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