268 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
pinnae distant, 4-6 inches long, inch broad, linear-oblong, trun- 
cate at the base, caudate at the apex, coarsely but shallowly lobed, 
the lobes serrated ; terminal pinna sometimes with larger lobes or 
auricles towards its base; texture thin herbaceous; rachis and 
surfaces smooth ; veins pinnate in each lobe, 6-8 on each side, the 
lowest pair anastomosing angularly, with an excurrent vein which 
either runs out to the margin or occasionally joins one or even two 
of the superior veins (but the anastomosing is not so systematic as 
in the other species of the genus) ; sori medial on the veinlets, most 
of which are soriferous ; fertile 
frond often contracted but not 
always; indusium reniform or 
often asplenioid and athyrioid. 
Aspidium otaria, Kunze, Herb. 
Mett. Aspid. p. 34. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. 288. Pleocnemia aristata. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 62. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t 83. The sori are quite 
abnormal, the venation and posi- 
tion of the sori are not at all 
that of Pleocnemia. 
South India, Anamallay 
Hills, the dry teak forests, 1,000- 
3,000 feet elevation, appearing in 
the rainy season, Tinnevelly 
Hills and elsewliere on the Wes- 
tern ghats, but by no means 
general ; Ceylon, 2,000-3,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Luzon.) ^ 
2. Nephrodium unitum. iyLinn. under Folypodhuji.) Rhizome 
creeping, stipes i-i^ foot long, brownish naked; fronds about 2 feet 
long, pinnate, pinnje numerous, 3-5 inches long, ^ inch broad, cut 
down about one-third, rarely more, into triangular acute entire or 
subentire lobes, lower pinnae not reduced ; texture coriaceous ; veins 
pinnate in the lobes, 4-8 o'l each side, the lowest pair anastomose 
NEPHRODIUM OTARIA. {Kzc.) 
