I30 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
fronds ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 feet long, 6-12 inches broad; pinnae 
I inch or more apart at the base, all stalked except towards the apex, 
erect-patent, linear, 4-6 inches long, inch broad, narrowed at the 
base on both sides, and at the apex, where it is toothed ; texture sub- 
coriaceous ; veins prominent ; fertile fronds similar, but the pinnae 
more distant and narrowly linear ; rachis erect naked. Xze. in Bot. 
Zeit. 1848, /. 521. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 183. Bedd, F. B. 1. t '165, 
Nepal, Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet. 
(Also in Japan and N. Australia.) 
TRIBE VII.— BLECHNEiE. 
Sori linear or oblong dorsal, parallel with the midrib and edge 
of the segments, not close to the latter ; indusium the same shape as 
.the sorus, superior, opening towards the midrib. 
GENUS XXXV.— BLECHNUM. (Z.) 
(One of the Greek names for a fern.) 
Sori linear, continuous, or nearly so, parallel with and usually 
contiguous to the midrib ; indusium membranous, distinct from the 
edge of the frond ; fronds uniform or only slightly dimorphous, 
generally pinnate or pinnatifid ; veins free. 
I. Blechnum cartilagineum. (Sivartz.) Caudex oblique, 
densely clothed at the crown with blackish fibrillose scales ; stipes 
strong erect scaly and muricated in the lower part; fronds ovate- 
oblong, 1-2 feet long, 6-9 inches broad, pinnatifid and pinnate 
towards the base ; pinnae numerous erect-patent linear, 4-6 inches 
long, inch broad, narrowed gradually upwards, margin ser- 
rulate ; the lowest pinnae hnear distant, narrower than those above, 
but not reduced to mere auricles. S7V. Sy?i. Fil. 114 and 312. 
Clarke, F. N. I. p. ^^z- Hook. Syn. Fil. 184. 
Mishmee. — Mr. Clarke refers Griffith's solitary specimen to this 
species, which is Australian. Hooker referred it to nitidum, an 
