148 Perns of British India and Ceylon. 
a right angle, the lower one obliquely truncate ; lower pinnae often 
deflexed ; texture herbaceous ; veins simple or once forked ; sori 
falling short of both edge and midrib. S7a. Sy?i. Fil. 80. Hook. 
Syn. Fil. 202. Asplenium erectum, Bory. 
Var. /3 CAMPTORACHis. Fronds 12-14 inches long; rachis 
winged; pinnae 30-40 pair, alternate or subopposite, about | inch 
long, rounded at the apex, lower ones often reduced to auricles. As- 
])lenium camptorachis, Kze. Asplenium brasiliense (Raddi), Bedd. F. 
S. I. t 135. 
Western parts of the 
Madras Presidency, Nilgi- 
ris, &c., at high elevations ; 
Ceylon, central provinces. 
Var. y TRAPEZIFORME 
Fronds about 14-20 inches 
long ; rachis not winged ; 
pinn^ about 15-20 pair, 
the lowest the largest, i\ 
inches long ; apex attenuat- 
ed. Aspl. trapeziforme 
(Roxb.), Crypt, p. 497. 
Bedd. F. S. I. i. 134. 
Nilgiris and Anamal- 
lays in Southern India. 
Unless a distinct species., 
which it probably is, I con- 
sider this a variety of luniL- 
latuni., and not of imilaterak 
(resectiini), to which it is referred by Hooker and Clarke., as 
the pimice are never tmilateral. Mr. Clarke also alludes to it under 
longifolium., as closely allied to that species, but it is nothi7ig like it, 
either in texture or cutting. 
13. Asplenium Zenkerianum. {Kze.) Stipes 6-9 inches long, 
tufted, slightly scaly ; fronds oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 feet long, gene- 
asplenium zenkerianum. {Kze.) 
