T5S Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
pinnules, which are again cut down to the rachis into broad flabellate 
cuneate segments, serrated round the outer edge; texture subcori- 
aceous ; rachis firm, grey, naked; veins channelled, flabellate; sori 
short, radiant. S-ro. Sy?i. Fil. p. 2^0. Hook. Syn Fil.p. 215. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. 148, 149. Aspl. laserpitiifolium, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 225. 
Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam ; Khasya, Cachar, 1,000-4,000 feet 
elevation ; Ceylon ; Madras Presidency in the Western forests ; Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in Malay Islands and S. Africa.) 
33. AsPLENiUM FONTANUM. (Ber?ih.) Stipes tufted, 2-4 
inches long, wiry, slender, glabrous; fronds 3-6 inches long, 
inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; pinnae numerous, the lower ones 
reduced, often somewhat remote, pinnate, pinnatifid or only toothed ; 
texture herbaceous, rachis and surfaces bright green; veins oblique; sori 
copiou^:, covering nearly the whole segment. Beriih. iii ScJwad. A eii. 
/our. I pf. ii. 26. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 216. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 146. 
Himalayas, from Kashmir to Gurwhal, 5,000-9,000 feet. 
(Also in Europe.) 
Var. /3 ExiGUUM. Frondsless divided and more narrow, and 
an ebeneous rachis. Asp. exiguum, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 146. 
Nilgiris, Kulhatty ; Himalayas. 
34. AsPLENiUM VARiANS. {Hook and Grev.) Stipes tufted, 
1-3 inches long, slender, naked, greenish ; fronds 4-6 inches long, 
I inch broad, oblong-lanceolate; pinnae 8-12 pair, the lower ones 
subdeltoid |-f inch long, i-| inch broad, cut down to the rachis 
into a few cuneate flabellate pinnules, the lowest two lines across, 
sharply toothed on the outer edge ; texture thin, herbaceous ; rachis, 
slender, naked, green ; veins, one carried into each tooth ; sori 
copious. Hook. Syn. Fil. 216. Bedd. F S. I. t. 129. 
South India, common on the Nilgiris and the mountains on 
the west side, 3,000 feet upwards ; Himalayas, 6,000-10,000 feet, 
rarer eastwards ; Ceylon, 3,000 feet and upwards. 
A form found at KiUhatty on the JVilgiris, quite runs into the 
European lanceolatuni. Another form 07i the Tinnevelly hills west of 
