Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 147 
bifid ; fronds about 10 inches long by 2 inches broad. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. 127. 
Anamallays ; banks of Toracadu and elsewhere. I believe this 
to be only a form of Wightianum, though Mr. Baker is inclined to 
regard it as a distinct species. 
11. AsPLENiUM TENERUM. {Forst.) Stipcs tuftcd, firm, erect, 
greyish, naked, 4-1 1 inches long; fronds 8-15 inches long, 3-4 
inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; pinnae numerous on each side, 
stalked, horizontal, i-| inch broad, more or less bluntly rounded at 
the apex, the edge rather deeply crenat- 
ed all round, the two sides unequal, 
the upper one narrowed, almost at a 
right angle, sometimes auricled, the 
low^r one obliquely truncate ; texture 
herbaceous ; rachis compressed ; veins 
all simple except the lowest superior 
one, w^hich is always forked except 
in the uppermost pinnae ; sori nume- 
rous, regular, parallel, not reaching the 
margin or midnh. Forst Frod. p. 80. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 201. Asp. elonga- 
tum (Sw.), Bedd. F. S. I. t. 224. 
Ceylon ; at Oodawella and Matale 
East, not common. Mr. Wall sends 
a specwien with viost of the pinnm 
piiinatijid in their lower half nearly 
to the rachis. Singapore, Penang. 
(Also in the Philippines, Borneo, 
Java, Marianne Islands,Taheiti, and New Gu'nea.) 
12. AsPLENiUM LUNULATUM. {Sw) Stipcs tufted, 2-4 inchcs 
long, firm, nearly naked, grey or ebeneous ; fronds 8-18 inches long, 
1I-3 inches broad, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, with many horizontal 
pinnae on each side, which are \-\ inch broad, bluntish or acute 
at the apex, more or less deeply crenate throughout, the two 
sides unequal, the upper one at the base narrowed suddenly at about 
