2i6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
stipes I foot or more long; fronds 12-18 inches long, 8-12 inches 
broad, subdeltoid with a large deeply pinnatifid apex, with lanceolate 
lobes ; below this one or two pinnae on each side, the lowest stalked, 
distant, forked at the base, or pinnatifid, the point lanceolate; texture 
herbaceous, surfaces somewhat hairy beneath and on the main veins 
above, main veins distinct to the edge, the others copiously anasto- 
mosing, with free veinlets included in the areoles ; sori rather large, 
but scattered, confined to the connected veinlets ; indusium reniform. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 52. Syn, Fil. 296. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 242, and 
F, B. I. t. 48. 
Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula. 
My Ceylon specimens are much smaller 
than those from Birma, but I believe 
they are the same species; in habit it is 
quite like variolosum, but the sori are 
always on the netted veinlets, instead 
of at the apex of free veinlets. 
6. ASPIDIUM VARIOLOSUM. (Wall.) 
Rhizome suberect, stipes tufted, scaly 
near the base only, 12-18 inches long 
in the fertile, less in the sterile fronds, 
more or less dimorphous, deltoid in 
outline, herbaceous in texture, and some- 
what puberulous, especially in the sterile 
ones ; pinnae about three pair below the 
pinnatifid apex, the lowest pair again 
pinnated with the pinnules often pin- 
ASPiDiuM suBTRirHYLLUM. natifid, the next pair often pinnatifid or 
[Hook.) pinnated in a less degree, the pinnae of 
the fertile fronds generally narrower and often more divided, main 
veins not very distinct but more so in the fertile than in the sterile ; 
areoles copious, with many free included veinlets ; sori rather large, 
almost always at the apex of the free veinlets, very rarely on the netted 
veins; indusium peltate and reniform on the same frond. Wall. 
Cat. 379." Bedd. Sup. Fertis, t. 365 {not F. B. I. 170, 7Lihich is 
