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ii. 31. Sw. Syn. Fit. p, 124 and 321. A. jmhescens Schhr. Fil. 108 t. 116. A. pedahm Font. Prod, 83 n. 458 (iiot Linn.) A. 
nervosum Sw. Sj/n. Fil. 123. A. plicatuni Kaidf En. Fil, p. 201. A. scabrum Wall. Cat. n. 79. A, flahellidatiim Wall- Cat. a. 2177 
(not Linn.) 
Piilney Hills, Anamallays and Nilgiris, up to about 3,000 feet— rather rare. 
PLATE No. IIL 
4. A. Capillns Veneris (L.) — Frond ovate tri-quadri-pinnate, pinnules delicate membranaceous glabrous obliquely broad cuneate 
(sometimes approaching to rhomboid) tapering into a rather long slender petiolule, the superior margin deeply and irregularly inciso lobate 
lobes very obtuse or truncate soriferous (sterile one subinciso dentate) sori as broad as the lobe, oblong or sub-reniform, stipes and slender 
rachis everywhere ebeneous, glossy and quite glabrous. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii, 36. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1558. A. Moritzianmi. Klotzsch. A. 
dependens. Cliapnian's Mst. (ex Torrey.) 
Nilgiris, rare — Coimbatore plains, (banks of a river.) 
PLATE No. IV. 
5. A. jEthiopiam (Linn). — Frond oblong, ovate triquadri-pinnate, pinnules sub-or quite membranaceous, glabrous snb- 
orbicular suddenly and obliquely cuneate at the base into a rather or very slender petiolule, superior margin more or less lubed. lolits 
.shallow emarginate, the sinus or notch of the lobe soriferous, sori rather large 2-6 on :i pinnule, invobieres oblong-lunulate, stipes iiiid 
slender rachis every where ebeneous shining and glabrous. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 37, Li/t/t. Sj>. PI. p. 1560. A. thatidroides Willd. A. 
pelluciduni Mart et Galeot Fil. Mex. 272. A. cijclodcs Zenker. 
Nilgiris— Fair lawns near Ootacamund. Dodabetta, Nediwattam. Pulnies, by no means a common fern. 
PLATE No. V. 
TRIBE 4, TPvICIiOMANINE/E. 
(a.) Involucres urn shaped or tuhular.) 
Trichomanes, Linnmus, Gen. pi. ed. ii., 947. 
C Achonianes, Necker, D id ijmoglossum., Desvaux, Lecemium, Presl.; Cardiomanes, Presl. ; Cephalonianes, Presl. ; Ba- 
yatelus, Presl.; Pacltychcetum, Presl.; Chilodium, Presl.; Crepidum, Presl; Meringium, Presl. ; Hemiphlehium, Presl.; Mic- 
rogoniim ; Presl.; Abrodict yum ; Presl. ; Neurophylhim Presl.; Magroglena ; Presl.; Taschneria ; Presl. ; Leucomanes), Presl.; Pleu 
romanes, Presl.; Pseudachomanes, Presl. ; Amphipterum, Presl.; Crepidomanes, Presl. ; Odontomanes, Presl.; Homoeotes, Presl.; 
Sori involucrate seated in extrorse-marginal (rarely recurved) cysts, sunk in or free on the margins of the fronds ; the veins 
continued into filiform exserted sometimes capitate recepAades, which are free within the cysts, and bear sessile lenticular spore cases at 
their base. Involucres funnel-pitcher-shaped or shortly bell shaped, truncate and entire at the mouth or two lipped ; «'ei'ns simple 
forked or pinnate from a central costa or simple costa-like in the ultimate segments, or flabellato-dichotomous, veinlets free sometimes 
excurrent in the marginal teeth. 
Fronds simple pinnate or decompound, pellucid membranaceous, rarely coriaceous— Pihizome creeping (sometimes filiform) or 
coespitose — Delicate semi-transparent Ferns. ( Moore.) 
1. Trichomanes A^eilgherrense (Beddome) — Caudex creeping more or less tomentose, fronds glabrous ; very small stipitate entire 
ovate to elliptic lanceolate or linear thin membranaceous, margins often furnished with peltate scales — stipes 3 to 6 lines long, glabrous or 
tomentose, involucres terminal 1-2 sunk in the frond, mouth obscurely 2 lipped, receptacles more or less exserted. 
A very small species — fronds 4 to 8 lines long — the curious peltate scales with their tufted appendage are found on both sterile 
and fertile fronds and are all round the margin of some fronds, whilst others are quite destitute of them. I at first thought them to be 
some parasite, but something similar is found on T. membranaceum (Linn.) a West Indian species ; they are well represented in the 
magnified figure. Abundant about Walaghat on the Western slopes of the Nilgiris. I have not found it elsewhere. 
PLATE No. VL 
2. Trichomanes filicida (Bory.) Caudex creeping cloathed with dense black down, fronds rather small opaque ovate-lanceolate 
bipinnatifid, the segments linear rather acute entire compactly cellular, involucres solitary supra axillary cylindrical tapering at the base 
wholly sunk or winged at the sides, the mouth with 2 large narrow ovate or subtriangular acute lips nearly as long as the tube, stipes 
