Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 157 
shape, the ultimate segments ovate or oblong, acutely serrate, texture 
coriaceous ; veins obscure, oblique ; sori copious, involucre with an 
entire margin. Linn. Sp. PL 1541. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 214. Bedd. 
F. B. I. t. 62. 
Kashmir, 5,000-8,000 feet, extending to Dalhousie and Chumba. 
(Also in Europe, North Asia, North Africa, South Africa and 
its islands, and Sandwich Islands.) 
30. AsPLENiuM FURCATUM. {Tlu/nb.) Stipcs tufted, 4-8 
inches long, clothed with deciduous woolly hairs, as is the rachis ; 
fronds coriaceous, 6-t8 inches long, 4-6 inches broad ; pinnse 12-20 
pair, lanceolate-deltoid, f-i inch broad, cut down throughout nearly to 
the rachis into linear-cuneate pinnules, which are sharply serrated, on 
the outer edge; veins flabellate, deeply channelled; sori linear. TJuinb. 
Prod. FL P. 172. Hook. Syn. Fil. i>. 215. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 144. 
South India, common on the higher Western mountains, 
Ootakamund, &c. ; Ceylon, 5,000-7,000 feet. 
(Also in Tropical America, Polynesian Islands, Australia, Cape 
Colony, Abyssinia, Mascareen Islands, and Canaries.) 
31. AsPLENiUM AFFiNE. {Swartz.) Stipcs 6-12 inches long, 
firm, erect, grey, nearly naked; fronds 12-18 inches long, 6-12 
inches broad ; pinnse numerous on each side, the lower ones 
lanceolate-rhomboidal, cut down to the rachis into numerous distinct 
rhomboidal pinnules, 4-6 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad, which are 
incised or deeply lobed ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, 
naked ; veins subflabellate ; sori copious, linear. Sw. in Schr. Jour. 
1,800. II. 56. Hook. Syn. Fil. 215. Asp. spathulinum (J. Sm.), i?^'^^. 
F. S. I. t. 226 {probably taken from a specimen of fiircaUtm and not 
from a fine as represented at Kewi) 
Ceylon. 
(Also in Mascareen Islands, Philippines, Borneo, Fiji, and 
Sandwich Islands.) 
32. AsPLENiUM NITIDUM. (Sivartz.) Stipcs I foot long, firm, 
erect, greyish, naked ; fronds 2-3 feet long, i foot broad ; pinnae 
numerous, lanceolate-deltoid, the lowest 6-9 inches long, 2-3 inches 
broad, cut down to the rachis into numerous stalked subdeltoid 
