192 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
on both sides ; texture thinly herbaceous, colour dark-green ; rachis 
villose and fibrillose throughout ; both surfaces naked ; veins pinnate, 
the groups joining one-third of the way from the midrib to the edge, 
and the veins of the same and different groups anastomosing ; sori 
not reaching the edge, copiously diplazioid. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 243. 
Bedd. R B. I. t. 329. 
East Nepal to Mishmee, 4,000-6,000 feet elevation. 
4. x\nisogonium esculentum. {Fresl.) Caudex subarborescent, 
erect ; stipes 1-2 feet long; 
strong, erect, tufted ; fronds 
4-6 feet long, occasionally 
simply pinnate only, but gene- 
rally bipinnate ; lower pinnse 
12-18 inches long, 6-8 inches 
broad ; pinnules 3-6 inches 
long, |-i inch or more broad, 
the apex acuminate, the edge 
more or less deeply lobed, the 
base narrowed suddenly, often 
auricled ; texture subcoria- 
ceous; rachis often pubescent; 
veins fine, copiously pinnated, 
6-10 on each side in each lobe, 
with a distinct barren central 
midrib; the veinlets of the 
different clusters beginning to 
unite a short distance from the 
midrib, with lines of sori often on all the lateral veinlets. Fresl. Bel. 
Hoiiik.i.p.^^. Hook. Syn. Fil. 244. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 164, as Cahipteris. 
South India, common in the plains on the Western side and 
up to 3,000 feet. Bengal Plains ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in China, Formosa, and the Malay Islands.) 
5. Anisogonium Smithianum. {Baker?) Caudex obUque, de- 
cumbent ; stipes thick, i foot long, slightly scaly below, furfuraceous 
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\Mctt.) 
