Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
i6i 
the upper side agian cut into erect-patent linear segments, the lowest 
on the under side suppressed ; texture coriaceous ; rachis compressed ; 
sori linear marginal. Kze. in Linncea, x. 521. Hook. Syn. FiLp, 
222. Bedd. F. S. 1. t. 138. 
South India, on the Tinnevelly Mountains; Ceylon, Singhe Rajah 
Forest ; Himalayas, Bhotan, and Mishmee ; Khasya. 
(Also in South Africa, Japan and Fiji.) 
38. AsPLENiuM Belangeri. {Kze.) Caudex short, stout, 
erect ; stipes densely tufted, 4 inches to a span long, compressed 
upwards, greenish ; fronds feet long, narrow-oblong (the sides 
almost forming a parallelogram), acuminated only at the apex, 
sparingly stellate-squamulose beneath, here and there proliferous, 
subchartaceous, pale green, bipinnate, primary pihnse from 1-2 
inches long, horizontally patent, singularly uniform in the whole 
length, linear obtuse, nearly sessile, again pinnated (or they may be 
said to be deeply pinnatifid), pinnules or segments 2-3 lines long, 
linear-clavate, or subspathulate, obtuse, straight, or a little curved, 
decurrent, with the rachis simple monosorous, or the lowest superior 
one is bifid or subpinnatifid; veins solitary central; sori large, 
conspicuous, occupying nearly the length of the pinnule, marginal ; 
involucres of the same colour and texture almost of the frond ; main 
rachis compressed, partial ones distinctly winged. Hook. Sp. FiL iii. 
209. Syn. Fil.p. 223. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 287. 
The Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Java, Sumatra, and Borneo.) 
GENUS XLI.— ATHYRIUM. {Roth.) 
(^Derivation imknoivn.) 
As in Asplenium, but the involucres, or at least many of them, 
more or less curved, often horseshoe-shaped, rarely quite uniform as 
in Lastrea. 
I. Athyrium spinulosum. {Max.) Stipes 6-12 inches long, 
scattered, firm, erect, straw-coloured, furnished more or less with 
pale brown lanceolate scales ; fronds 6-12 inches, deltoid, as broad as 
long, 3-pinnate ; pinn?e 9-12 pairs, lowest the largest, 2.^,-3 inches 
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