Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
pinnae give this a very different look to Gardneri or macrophyllum. 
I have only seen two or three specimens and do not know how far it 
varies, but should not be surprised if it turned out to be only a 
variety of macrophyllum. 
(Also in Java and Sumatra.) 
22. AsPLENiUM FORMOSUM. {WHld.) Stipcs tuftcd, vcry 
short, naked, polished, dark brown; fronds 12-16 inches long pinnae 
20-31 pair (lower ones generally reduced), sessile, horizontal, f 
inch long, by i\-2 lines deep, the upper edge deeply cut, the 
apex rather obtuse, the 
lower edge truncate in a 
straight line, so that about 
half the lower side is cut 
away ; texture herbaceous ; 
veins obscure, simple or 
forked ; sori linear-oblong, 
short, oblique, confined to the 
lower side, or 1-4 on each side 
of the midrib. Willd. Sp. Fl. 
V. 329. Hook. Syn Fil. p. 
210. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 136. 
South India, abundant in 
moist woods at the higher ele- 
vations on the Nilgiris, Pulneys 
and Anamallays ; Ceylon, rare. 
(Also in Tropical America, the West Indies, and Africa, Angola, 
and Congo.) 
23. AsPLENiUM UNiLATERALE. {Lam}) Stipcs Scattered slender, 
naked, dark brown, polished or grey, and opaque, 4-8 inches long; 
fronds 6-15 inches long, lanceolate-oblong; pinnse 10-30 pairs 
sub-sessile horizontal 1-3 inches long, by ^-i inch broad, in shape 
almost dimidiate, two-thirds of the lower side being entirely cut away, 
the apex acute or bluntish, all except the truncate part incised, the 
upper half of the base narrowed nearly at a right angle ; texture 
thinly-herbaceous ; rachis usually polished like the stem, or green and 
ASPLENIUM PARADOXUM. {BhlVie.) 
