Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 275 
11. Nephrodixjm MOULMEiNENSE. (Bedd.) Stipes firm, erect, 
2 feet or more long ; fronds up to 4 feet long, pinnate, pinnae 
often with a large gland at base, numerous coriaceous, about i foot long 
and inch broad, narrow oblong, caudate at the apex, the 
margin with sharp serratures, w^hich are falcate and only about one 
line deep, sometimes nearly obsolete or obscure, the frond being 
nearly entire, upper surface generally quite glabrous and shining, 
under surface with obscure hairs on the costa and veins ; veins very 
prominent 16-21 pair, all but the upper 2-3 pair anastomosing with 
a zigzag excurrent veinlet united throughout ; sori medial on the 
veins or often near their apex in a single row on each side of the 
costule ; indusium reniform. Bedd. F. Sup. 
p. 18. Goniopteris lineata, Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. 3. G. multilineata, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 231, 
(not 232, Penangiana, which is the next 
species). Polypodium multilineatum ( IVa//.), 
Hook. Syn. Fit. 316. I have been obliged 
to rename this as it is a Nephrodium, and 
there is another Neph. multilineatum, e. 
Wallich's (our truncatum). 
South India, very common on the Gol- 
condah Hills (west of Vizagapatam) 2,000- 
3,000 feet elevation, involucre distinct; (not 
on the. Western mountains). Throughout 
North India, from the plains up to 5,000 moulmeinense. {Bedd.) 
feet elevation, very common ; Birma, very common near Moulmein 
(involucre distinct) ; this differs from urophyllum in being more 
rigid in texture and in having many more veins. 
12. Nephrodium cosTATUM. {IVall. under Polypodium.) Stipes 
i\ foot and more long, rather stout, scaleless, glossy, and as well as the 
rachis strongly tinged with red (rarely stramineous); fronds 1-3 feet 
long, broad-oblong or lanceolate coriaceous-submembranaceous 
pinnated glabrous, pinnse numerous, rather distant, patent, sessile 5-8 
inches long, \ an inch or a little more broad (on sterile fronds some- 
times exceeding an inch) from an obliquely cuneate truncate sessile 
