I50 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
1 6. AsPLENiUM CRiNicAULE. {ffauce.) Stipes furnished with 
hair-Uke scales, densely tufted, 3-4 inches long, erect, dark-brown ; 
fronds 6 inches to 2-3 feet long, ii-4l inches broad; pinnae 9-25 , 
pairs, opposite, sub-opposite or alternate, lanceolate, sub-falcate, with 
a blunt or acuminated apex, the margins deeply incised, often the 
upper base and sometimes both the . upper and lower base much 
auricled, giving the pinna a hastate shape, the lower base often 
obliquely truncate ; texture coriaceous ; rachis firm, fibrillose like 
the stipes ; midrib rather indistinct ; veins subflabellate ; sori linear 
oblique. Hance, in Anii. Sc. Nat. Ser. v. 254. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 
208. Asp. Beddomei, Mett. hi Linncsa^ 36, 93. Aspl. falcaturr, 
Bedd. F. S. J. t. 141. 
Madras Presidency, on the Anamallays and in Coorg, 3,000- 
4,000 feet elevation ; Sikkim, Jaintea hills 4,000-5,000 feet, nearly 
allied to the next species, and probably only a variety of it. 
(Also in China.) 
17. AsPLENiuM FALCATUM. {Lam) Stipcs tufted, 6-9 inches 
long, erect, greyish, glabrous, or more or less scaly ; fronds 6 inches 
to 2 feet long or more, 4-8 inches broad; pinn3e stalked, 6-20 pair, 
alternate, sub-opposite or opposite, lanceolate, often caudate, ^-i 
inch broad, the edges serrated or lobed, with the lobes serrate, the 
two sides unequal, and the lower one at the base obliquely-truncate ; 
texture coriaceous ; rachis glabrous or fibrillose ; veins very oblique ; 
sori in long irregular lines reaching nearly to the margin. Lam.Enc. ii. 
306. Hook. Syn. Fil. 208. Bedd. F S. I. t. 143, as caudatum. 
Madras Presidency, Western mountains ; Ceylon ; Malay Penin- 
sula ; Soonderbun ; near Koolna in Jessore. 
(Also in Australia, S. Africa and its islands, and Polynesia.) 
18. AsPLENiUM MACROPHYLLUM. {Swartz.) As in falcatum, 
but the pinnoe generally larger and broader, and less cut. S^a. 
Syn. Fil. p. 77 and 261. Hoolz. Syn. Fil. p. 209. Bedd. F. S. I. t. \a,2. 
Distinct enoiigJi from falcatum if typical specimens only are 
vieived^ but quite passing into it if large suites of specimens ate ex- 
amifted, it should, I think, only rank as a variety. 
