iy2 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
mucronate, lowest pinnules more distant on short petiolules, inter- 
mediate ones more approximate, the lower base decurrent, upper 
ones confluent ; veins pinnated ; veinlets forked once or more ; sori 
generally in two rows, oblique near the costule in the pinnules that 
are pinnatifid, extending to the lobes, small, short-linear, straight or 
lunate ; involucres slightly convex, jagged at the margin ; mainrachis 
stramineous, glossy, flexuose. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 229. Wall. 11. 220, 
{not Mett.) Bedd. F. B. I. t. 241. 
Mishmee ; Taongdong Mountains near Ava. The figure is 
taken from the Ava specimen collected by Wallich, which is 
bipinnate, the Mishmee specimen is tripinnate. 
13. Athyrium fimbriatum. (IVall. imder Aspidhnn.) Stipes 
stout, darkish brown, glossy, i foot and more long, copiously palea- 
ceous, most so towards the base, with large glossy, tawny, lanceolate- 
. subulate scales, fronds ample, 2-3 feet long, ovate or subdeltoid 
acuminate firm-coriaceous, 3-4-pinnate ; primary pinnse petiolate (as 
are the secondary and tertiary ones), 6-12 inches long, distant from 
a broad base, lanceolate, much acuminate ; secondary ones also 
distant, of the same shape, but not acuminate, inches long, 
numerous ; ultimate pinnules ovate-lanceolate, i inch long, superior 
basal one the largest, acute, all pinnatifid with acute lobes, auricled 
at the superior base, terminal ones subconfluent ; sori 2-5 on each 
pinnule, broad-oblong, • or in age almost globose, very promment 
and copious ; involucre brown, membranaceous, broad, generally 
crescent-shaped or subreniform, fimbriated, extremely convex, soon 
forced back by sori ; rachises all pale brown, glossy, more or less 
flexuose. JVall. Cat. 339. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 234. Syn. Fil. 
p. 229. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 295. 
Himalayas, from East Kashmir to Bhotan, 5,000-12,000 feet. 
Var. /) FOLiosA. {Wall.) Rachis ofcen very red and waved, 
glandular in the axis of the pinnae, ultimate segments broader than 
in the type; sori small. Wall. Cat. 359. Clarke^ F. N. I. t. 62. 
fig. 2. 
Sikkim and Nepal at high levels. 
