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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Himalayas, Kumaon to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet, very com- 
mon ; Assam ; Khasya, 3,000-6,000 feet, very common. 
Var. multicaudatum. {IVall.) Rhizome creeping; fronds 
up to 3 feet ; primary pinnae up to i foot long; secondary pinnae 
petioled, about 3 inches long and i inch broad, acuminate, cut down 
nearly to the rachis, the segments oblique to the rachis, i-f inch 
lon.s:, rather narrow ligulate, more or less sharply serrated ; veinlets 
forked or simple ; sori oblong 
(T subquadrate near the ra- 
chis; lower indusia diplazioid. 
Wall. Cat. 229. Dipl. Jerdoni, 
Bedd, F. B. I. t. 327. D. 
Griffithii, Baker, Syn. Fil. 239. 
Bedd. F B. L 2,2d>. 
Himalayas, from Nepal 
to Bhotan, 1,000-5,000 feet, 
common. Khasya, 1,000- 
5,000 feet ; Chittagong, 200- 
2,000 feet. 
Var. assimile. {Ejidl.) 
Fronds deltoid, membrana- 
ceous, flaccid, tripinnate, with 
the tertiary pinnae (pinnules) 
very small, deeply pinnatifid ; 
segments rounded entire, to slightly crenated ; veins from pinnate 
to simple or forked, according to the size of the segments ; sori 
oblique from the midrib towards the margin ; indusia mostly dip- 
lazioid. End. Fl. Norf. 10. Bedd. F. S. I t. 294. Athyrium 
australe, TJnv. En. PL Zey. p. 385. Perhaps a distinct species. 
Ceylon, central provinces. 
(Also in Norfolk Island and Australia.) 
Mr. Clarke informs me that Miiller has placed his Diplazium 
helium in a new genus of Cyatheae. 
DIPLAZIUM UMBROSUM, 
VAR. MULTICAUDATUM. {Wall.) 
