2i8 Ferns of British India and CeylOx^j. 
cicutariuni) Aspidium Zollingerianum, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 2^\, fertile 
frond only. Nephrodium (Sagenia) variolosum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 298, 
and Zollingerianum (/.r.) as far at least as the Birniese plant. 
East Bengal Plains, abundant from Assam to Chittagong; 
Tenasserim near Moulmein ; Penang, < 
7. Aspidium polymorphum. {Wall.) Rhizome suberect, 
stipes tufted, yellowish or brown, paleaceous only at the base ; fronds 
large, 1-4 feet long, by i foot or more broad, pinnate; pinnae 3-6 on 
each side, oblong or elliptic, acuminate, unequal at the base, some- 
times contracted when fertile, quite entire to' crenate or coarsely 
toothed, stalked or subsessile, the terminal one often more or less 
lobed or subpinnatifid, the lowest pair generally (not always) bifur- 
cate ; texture herbaceous to subcoriaceous ; main veins prominent 
and distinct to the margin, with many free included simple or forked 
veinlets ; sori on the netted veins, small and scattered in the un- 
contracted fronds, large and more or less in two rows between the 
main veins in the contracted ones ; indusium reniform or often 
quite absent. Wall. Cat. 382. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 297. :^edd. 
F. S. I. tabs. 116, ii/. Sagenia siifolia, Baker., Syn. Fil. p. 299, 
as far as the Coitrtalliim pla?it. Neph. Wightii, Clarke, F. N. I. 
538, the contracted form. 
Western forests of Madras Presidency, very common up to 4,600 
feet. (I do not consider the contracted form even a constant variety.) 
Northern India from Gurwhal to Mishmee and Chittagong ; Ceylon j 
Birma. 
(Also in the Malay Islands, the PhiUppines and Fernando Po.) 
8. Aspidium Simonsii. {Baker.) Very like polymorphum, 
but with the stipes and rachis polished blackish-purple, lowest pair 
of pinnae pinnate below, deeply lobed upwards, others more or less 
bifurcate below and rather deeply lobed throughout, venation as in 
polymorphum ; sori rather large (in my specimens), in two series 
between the main veins, or irregularly scattered sub-4-serial between 
the main veins. Hook. Syn. Fil. 504. Bedd. Sip. Ferns, t. 367. 
Seetakand Hill, Chittagong ; Sikkim, and Bhotan. Mr. Clarke, 
makes it a variety of polymorphum, and he may be right, but until 
