270 Ferns of British India and Cf.ylon. 
veinlet, or meeting just at the sinus without the excurrent veinlet, or 
the lowest pair is quite free (as in Lastrea), the other pairs always all 
free ; sori towards the apex of the veins and present on all or all but 
the 1-2 lower ones, often much immersed and visible as punctiform 
dots on the upper surface. Asp. extensum, BL En. PL y-'av. Fil. 156. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 289, {iiot Bedd. F S. I. t. 85, which is large molle). 
Asp. multijugum, Wall. Cat. 348, {not 355, which is truncatum). 
Nep. punctatum, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 131, [jiot punctatum, Baker ^ 
Syn. Fil. p. 513, ivhich is Lastrea ochthodes, vide speci77ien in Knv 
Herbarium.) 
South India, Tinnevelly Hills, rare ; Ceylon, central pro- 
vinces, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation ; Birma, Penang, and Malay 
Peninsula (Khasya, 2 sheets of Griffiths in the Kew Herbarium, but 
not found by any one else in North India). 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
5. Nephrodium microsorum. {Clarke) Rhizome wide 
creeping, stipes angled, furnished with linear-subulate long soft brown 
persistent scales towards the base, more or less softly pubescent as 
is the rachis ; fronds about 2 feet long ; pinnae rather distant, sessile, 
about 4^ inches long, by ~ inches broad, the lower ones somewhat 
reduced or the stipe with auricles, deeply cut almost to the rachis 
into linear-oblong tongue-like entire or subentire segments, the upper 
and lower basal ones often considerably longer than the others ; 
texture thinly herbaceous, both surfaces, especially the under one, 
furnished with scattered long white needle-like hairs ; veins about 
13 pairs, the lowest pair always regularly anastomosing at an acute 
angle very near the costa of the pinnae with an excurrent vein, the 
other pairs always all free ; sori minute, sometimes only near the 
costa of the pinnse and scarcely extending to the lobes ; involucre 
glabrous caducous. N. extensum, var. microsorum, Clai'ke^ F. 
N. I. t. 530, and var. late-repens. 
Sikkim up to 4,000 feet elevation, very abundant about Siligori, 
near the foot of the Darjeeling Pass. 
6. Nephrodium cucullatum. [Bl) Stipes about i foot 
