40 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
winged rachis into long broadly-linear dichotomous segments, some- 
times ciliate, with only a central costa in each ; sori 2-6, terminal on 
the segments ; involucre cup-shaped, quite sunk, the mouth broadly 
dilated, slightly two-lipped. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 76. T. corticola, 
Bedd. F. S. I. i. 264. 
Ceylon, Ambagarawa district ; also collected by Griffith either 
in North India or the Malay peninsula. 
(Also in Mauritius, Bourbon, Java, and the Polynesian Islands.) 
9. Trichomanes Kurzii. {Bedd.) Rhizome slender, wide 
creeping ; stipe very short ; frond not i inch long, cuneate below, 
h . deeply pinnati- 
fid, primary seg- 
ments 1-3 lo- 
bate, ultimate 
segments hn ear, 
texture thick, 
surface some- 
what undulated, 
TRICHOMANES KURZII. [Bcdd) margin bound- 
ed by a thickened line, a central vein only in each segment ; sori 
1-2 to a frond, subterminal, the involucre turbinate, sunk in the 
frond, the mouth dilated but without lips. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 286. 
Trich. nanum. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 77, Crepidomanes nanum, V. 
D. B. Hymen. Suppl. p. 122. C/arke, F. A^. I. p. 440. 
Assam, Andaman Islands ; Malabar, at Poodoopady, foot of the 
Tambacherry Ghat. 
10. Trichomanes viridans. {Mett.) Rhizome creeping, to- 
mentose ; fronds with a broadly winged stipe i-i inch long, very 
irregular in outline, more or less deeply pinnatifid nearly down to the 
midrib ; segments again more or less deeply divided, obtuse and 
rounded at the apex of the lobes ; veins erect-patent from a 
central costa one to each lobe of the segments ; spurious venules 
li.neolate, numerous, very short and detached ; sori numerous, terminal 
