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2. Botrychmm sub-carnmm (Wall.) Fronds sub-carnose, bi-pinnate, pinnules variously lobed and pinnatifid, more or less sharply 
serrated ; the fertile branch from below the sterile portion of the frond ; main and partial rachises slightly hairy or glabrous. Botrychium 
daucifolium. Hook, et Grev. Icon. FiL t, 161 (not in Wall. Cat.)— Botrychium speciosum, Wall. //6,— Osmunda lavigera, Wall. Hb. 
Nilgiris — Anamallays — Bolampatty valley — 3,000 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. LXVIII. 
{b) Fnictijications Spicate, the spore-cases in glomerate tn/ts. 
Helminthostachys, Kaulfus. Enum. Fil. 28 t. 1. 
(Botryopteris, Presl. ; — Ophiala, Desvaux ; — Botrichii, Sp. Auctorum ;— Ophioglossil Sp. Anct ; — Osmunds, Sp. Auct. — ) 
Fructifications consisting of glomerate, verticillate, pedicillate tufts of spore-cases, the whorls terminated by a crest-like appen- 
dage and arranged in distichous spiked panicles on a distinct branch of the frond. Spore-cases, fleshy-coriaceous, globose, sessile, inverse 
bursting on the outer side, from the base upwards, in two equal or sub-equal hemispherical valves. Veins forked from a central costa ; 
venules parallel, free. 
Fronds herbaceous or coriaceous, trifoliately digitato-pedate, the fertile and sterile branches distinct. Rhizome stout, hori- 
zontal with coarse roots. (Moore.) 
1. Helminthostachjs Zeylanica (Hook). Rhizome stout, tuberous, with coarse roots. Fronds glabrous, shining trifoliately 
di<ntato-pinnate, each of the pinnse with 2-5 lanceolate entire or crenated segments — fertile branch proceeding from the base of the 
sterile frond erect. Helminthostachys dulcis Kaulfuss ; — Ophioglossum laciniatum, Rumph /—Osmunda Ceylanica, Linn. ; — Botrychium 
Ceylanicum, Sw. 
Anamallays, — moist bamboo clumps in the Teak forests, 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation — Malabar plains — foot of the Carcoor pass 
very abundant. 
PLATE No. LXLX. 
((■) Fructification Spicate, the s2)ore-cases in a single marginal series, 
Ophioglossum, Limiceus, Gen. PI. 779. 
{Ophioderma Endlicher ; — Cheiroglossa, Presl. ; — Rhizoglossum, Presl. ; — Cassiopteris, Kaisten, MS. (Klotzsch). 
FrxLctificalions on a distichous spike, terminating a distinct branch of the frond, or on distinct fronds. Spore-cases uniseria, 
along each margin of the compressed spike, with which they are connate, horizontal globose, bursting in two equal hemispherical valve.s. 
Veiyis uniformly reticulated in roundish or elongated areoles, sometimes from an indistinct costa, occasionally obscure ; the ultimate areoles 
with or without included free veinlets. 
Fronds sub-carnose two-or-many-branched, the sterile branch simple dichotomously-parted or palmato-lobate, the fertile sim- 
ple ; sometimes the fronds simple, the fertile and sterile distinct and dissimilar. Rhizome fleshy, sub-globose or short cylindrical-ovate. 
1. Ophioglossum reticulatum (Linn.) Rhizome tuberous cylindrical, stipe long, bearing a single cordato-ovate, acute or obtuse 
sterile frond and the lengthened fertile spike (contracted frond) — fronds l\ to 2 inches long 1 inch broad, — stipe 3 inches long. 
Anamallays— Teak forests— Nilgiris . 
PLATE No. LXX. 
2. Ophioglossum parvifoliiim (Linn.) Rhizome small, tuberous, stipe bearing a single linear to lanceolate acute frond and the 
lengthened fertile spike.— Sterile frond with no evident costa i to | inch, long by 2 to 5 lines broad. 
Anamallays — in wet grassy places — 2,500 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. LXXL 
3. Ophioglossum brevipes. (Beddome) Rhizome a large round bulb with numerous fibrous roots— stipe very short, bearing a 
single lanceolate sterile frond close to its base and an elongated fertile spike. Sterile fronds about 2 inches long by | inch broad. 
Anamallays— in swampy places 2,500 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. LXXIL 
