Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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tripinnatifid ; main rachis with a broad crisped wing ; lower pinn^ 
1- 1—2 inches long, triangular-rhomboidal, erect-patent, divided 
down to a narrow crisped centre into several plane or slightly crisped 
pinnules on both sides, the lower of which are several times deeply 
pinnatifid; sori 6-20 to a pinna, terminal and axillary on the seg- 
ments on both sides ; involucre about as broad as the segments, 
divided down nearly to the base ; valves orbicular, entire, or denticu- 
late. Spreng. Syst.\\\ 132. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 60. H. crispatum 
(Wall.), Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 207. 
Himalayas, Nepal, and Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 
3,500-5,500 feet; Western Ghats of the Madras Presidency; 
Ceylon, central provinces ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Bourbon, and the 
Philippines.) 
Var. (d badium. {Hook, and Grev.) Frond hardly or not 
at all crisped. H. badium. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 60. Bedd. F. B. L 
t. 282. 
Sikkim, Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim on the Mooleyit Moun- 
tain. 
6. Hymenophyllum ciliatum. {Stv) Stipe 1-2 inches long, 
furnished with tufts of stellate hairs, decurrently winged above ; wing 
ciliate ; frond oblong, acuminate, tripinnatifid, 2-6 inches long, 1-2 
inches broad at the centre ; main rachis broadly winged throughout 
ciliated and hairy like the stipe ; lower pinnae oblong or rhom- 
boidal, with a broad central undivided portion, and numerous erect- 
patent simple or forked ciliated linear segments 2-3 lines long ; sori 
2- 12 on a pinna, placed at the end of the lateral segments on both 
sides, involucre immersed suborbicular ; valves divided about half- 
way down, and conspicuously cihated. Hook. Syn. Fil. /. 63. Bedd. 
FB.'Lt.zoS- 
Sikkim. 
(Also in tropical America from Cuba and Mexico to Chili and 
South Brazil ; Tropical Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, Bourbon, 
Seychelles and Johanna Island; New Zealand.) 
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