Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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Courtalluni has sho7't deltoid fronds fully 2 inches across at the base, 
and broader pi?inules. 
(Also in South Africa, North China and Japan.) 
35. ASPLENIUM BULBIFERUM. {Forst.) StipCS tuftcd, 6-12 
inches long, firm, erect, scaly near the base, sometimes hairy through- 
out ; fr jnds 1-4 feet long, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate ; 
pinnae many pair, horizontal, often proliferous from the upper 
surface, the largest eight inches long, and two inches broad, cut down 
to a compressed winged rachis, into many lanceolate-deltoid pinnules 
which are cut into slightly toothed linear oblong flaccid segments ; 
texture herbaceous ; veins firm, pinnate ; sori oblong, large, often 
filling the whole segment. Forst. Fl. Ins. Aust. Prod. 80. Hook. 
Syn. Fil. p. 218. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 65, as buHatum (Wah.) 
Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, Khasya, 2,000-6,000 feet ; Penang. 
(Also in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, New Caledonia, 
Natal, and the East African Islands.) 
36. AsPLENiUM TENUiFOLiUM. (Don.) Stipes tufted, 3-6 
inches long, slender, glabrous, or with a few hairs ; fronds green, 
thinly herbaceous, up to 20 inches long, lanceolate, 3-4 pinnate ; 
pinnge many pair, the lower ones 3 inches long by f inch 
b-oad, lower pinnule subdeltoid, cut down to a narrowly winged 
rachis into spathulate segments, quarter inch or less broad, sharply 
cut on the outer edge ; veins solitary ; sori 1-2 to a segment. Don. 
Fr. Fl. Nep. 8. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 220. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 130. 
South India, higher ranges of the Nilgiris, Pulneys, and 
Anamallays; Ceylon at Newera Elya ; Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan 
5,000-9,000 feet; Khasya, 4,000-5,500 feet; Birma. 
% % % % % Ulf innate divisio7i of the frond., narrow., linear ; sori 
linear or linear-ot)long., margi?tal or subniarginal. Darea of authors. 
37. AsPLENiUM RUMFOLIUM. {Jvuiize.) Supcs tufted, 6-9 
inches long, compressed, greenish, glabrous; fronds 6-15 inches 
long, narrowly oblong, glabrous, bipinnate, the rachis often pro- 
longed, naked, and rooting at the apex; pinn^ 12-20 pair, the 
lowest sub-deltoid, two inches or more long, cut down to the rachis 
to many erect-patent distant pinnules on each side, the lowest on 
