Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 41 
at the apex of the lobes, tube almost entirely exserted, only the base 
being sunk in the margin of the frond, the mouth dilated. Kiihn^ 
Lin, 35, p. 389. T. pusillum, Bedd, F. B. I. t. 302. {Not of 
Swartz.) 
Moulmein. 
11. Trichomanes intramarginale. {Hook and Grev.) Rhi- 
zome slender, creeping, tomentose ; stipe short ; frond 1-2 inches 
long, J-^ inch broad, tapering below, erect pinnatifid, central portion 
I line broad, segments few, erect, simple, forked or pinnate, sub- 
coriaceous, opaque, the apices retuse, a central costa only in each 
segment, but the margin thickened ; involucres 1-4 to a frond, sub- 
cylindric, tapering at the base, sunk entirely in the apex of the 
segments ; receptacles protruding. Book. Syn. Fil. p. "jg. Bedd. F. 
S. I. t. 208. 
Sivagiri Hills (Tinnevelly district) ; Malabar plains, foot of the 
Bhagamandal Ghat, which descends from Coorg ; Ceylon, in the 
Ambagamwa district. 
12. Trichomanes pallidum. {Blu??ie.) Rhizome creeping, 
slender, tomentose ; stipe 1-3 inches long, wiry, slender; fronds 2-6 
inches long by i-i^- inch broad, ovate to lanceolate bipinnatifid, 
divided down to a narrowly winged rachis, glauco-fuscous when dry, 
primary divisions broad-lanceolate, the segments all acute-linear, 
simple or forked ; veins broad and few ; sori 1-4 to a pinna, super- 
axillary on short segments partially sunk, short cylindrical, attenuated 
at the base, the mouth broad-spreading, but scarcely two-lipped. 
Bhme Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 80. T. glauco-fuscum. Hook. Sp. Fil. i, 
p. 128. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 263. 
Ceylon, Ambagamwa district ; Penang. 
(Also in the Pacific Islands, and the Philippines.) 
13. Trichomanes bipunctatum. {Pair.) Rhizome wide- 
creeping, tomentose, rather slender, stipes 1-2 inches long, naked 
slightly winged above; frond 1-4 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad. 
