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Ferns of British India and Ckylon. 
broadest and narrowed suddenly at the base ; texture sub-coriaceous ; 
veins pinnate, inconspicuous ; rachis polished ; sori linear oblong, 
3-6 on each side of the midrib. L. Sp. Fil. p. i^d^oa. Hook, Syn. 
FiL 196. Bedd. F. S. I. t 147. 
Kulhatty on the Nilgiris ; Himalayas, Kashmir to Kumaon, 
5,000- To,ooo feet elevation. 
(Also in all four quarters of the world, Australia and Polynesia.) 
6. AsPLENiUxM^ NORMALE. [Don.) Stipcs 4-6 inches long, 
tufted, wiry, dark purple, polished ; fronds 8-1 5 inches long, i \ inch 
broad, with very numerous close placed pinnse, the lower ones, which 
are |-i inch long, ^ inch broad, deflexed ; the apex obtuse, the edge 
incised-crenate, the upper side auricled and nai rowed suddenly at 
the base, the lower truncate in a straight line ; texture sub-coriaceous; 
rachis glossy ; veins mostly once forked ; sori in two rows, very various 
in direction, some at right angles with the veins, some parallel with 
them, or in one row, or only 1-2 to each pinna. F)on. Prod. Fl. 
Nep. p. 7. EoJz. Syn.Fd.p. 197. Asplenium multijugum (Wall), 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 133. 
Madras Presidency, in the forests of the Western mountains, 
3,000-6,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon, above 4,000 feet elevation 
Himalayas from Nepal to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet ; Khasya, 3,000- 
5,000 feet. Mr. Clarke says some forms are nearly alhed to A. 
Trichomanes, others to monanthemum, a Madeira fern ; Hima- 
la}an examples are much more variable than those from South India. 
(xVlso in Canton.) 
Var. /3. Pinnce more numerous and overlapping each other, 
more regular in shape, forming almost parallelograms ; sori 1-6, 
generally confined to the apex, and parallel with the veins, one sorus 
on the upper auricle close to the rachis and parallel with it. 
Anamallays, 4,000 feet elevation. 
7. Asplenium subavenium. {Hook.) Stipes tufted, 2-3 inches 
long, wiry, blackish, densely fibrillose ; frond a span long, lanceolate 
coriaceous, very opaque, pinnated ; pinnae f of an inch long, 
