274 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
it ; it has glandular dots on the under surface, 6-7 pairs of veins, of 
which the four lower anastomose. 
10. Nephrodium urophyllum. {Wall, under Polypodium.) 
Rhizome short creeping; stipes approximate, 2 feet or more long, 
stout, erect, furnished with lanceolate-linear brown scales below ; 
fronds up to about 4 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae narrow-oblong, 
subsessile or sessile, acuminate or caudate at the apex, 6-12 inches 
long by \\-2 inches broad, the margin subentire, slightly crenated or 
with very short serratures ; upper surface quite glabrous, or the 
opteris, Bedd. F. S. L t. 239. Nephrodium lineatum, Fresl. 
Epim. Bot.p. 48. Hook. Sp. FiL iv. 72. Bedd. F. B. L t. 133. 
Asp. lineatum,^/. En. FiL Jav. 144, {^^ot Wall) Nephro. glandu- 
losum, Bedd. F. B. 1. t. 132, {not Blume) 
Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan and Chittagong 1,000- 
5,000 feet elevation; Ceylon, Oodawella Forest; not in South 
India. There can be no doubt that this is a Nephrodium, and that 
involucres are often present, though Mr. Clarke has still kept it in 
Goniopteris. Sir W. Hooker described it both as a Nephrodium and 
as a Goniopteris. 
(Also in Java and Philippines.) 
N?I4.0. 
NEPHRODIUM UROPHYLLUM. 
{Wall.) 
rachis of the pinnae a little stri- 
gose, under surface quite glabrous 
or with some minute pubescence 
on the veins, copious glabrous 
not glandular punctiform dots 
are present on both sides ; tex- 
ture subcoriaceous or herbaceous, 
veins 8-10 pair, rarely 14, all or 
nearly all anastomosing, the ex- 
current veinlets either free or 
joining the pair above ; sori 
small, one to each vein, about 
its centre; indusium reniform, 
generally absent. Wall. Cat 2^^. 
Hook. Syn. FIL p. 314. Goni- 
