i64 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Madras Presidency in the Western Forests, from the plains up 
to 4,000 feet ; Ceylon, Scinde. 
4. Athyrium FALCATUM. {Bedd.) Stipes 1-9 inches long with 
many linear golden scales at the base ; fronds 6-14 inches long, with 
the rachis above dilated or winged, iinear-lanceolate, narrowed at 
both ends, pinnae 15-20 on each side, sessile, alternate, inch 
long, by inch broad, falcate-ovate, deflexed, obtuse or acumi- 
nate, generally with a large obtuse auricle at both the superior and 
inferior base, above pinnatifid 
almost half down to the costa ; 
segments obtuse, crenated ; sori 
numerous on each side cf the 
costa, at length confluent and 
covering the whole or nearly the 
whole of the under surface. 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 151. Asplenium 
drepanophyllum. Baker, Syji. 
Fil. 226. 
South India, Anamallay 
Hills, dry grassy places 5,000 
feet. Myhenda Hill near Ber- 
hampore, 4,500 feet; Mahable- 
sbawer ; Parasnath 4,000 feet. 
5. Athyrium thelypte- 
RoiDES. {MicJix.) Stipes 6-8 
inches or more, furnished at the base with large lanceolate thin Hght 
coloured scales ; fronds generally about 3 feet long and 8 inches broad, 
lanceolate, gradually narrowed towards the base ; pinnae numerous, 
erect-patent, i^-i inch broad, cut three-quarters of the way to the 
rachis or more into oblong blunt crenated segments ; sori in close 
regular rows, short, oblong ; indusium persistent. MicJix. FL Bor. 
Am. II. 265. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 226. A. allantodioides, Bedd. 
F. B. I. t. 221, not F. B. 2. t. 68, ivJiicli is a form, of Diplazium 
sorzogonense. 
ATHYRIUM FALCATUM. {Bcdd.) 
