Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 277 
anastomosing, the upper ones free, rachis pubescent, upper surface 
glabrous in age, under surface more or less hairy on all the veins ; 
sori solitary near the middle of the 3-4 lower veins, indusium small 
reniform. Desv, Mhn. Soc. Linn. m\. p. 253. Hook. Syn. Fil. 292. 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 87. Neph. falcilobum, var. pubera, Clai-ke^ F. N. I. 
p. 515. Wall. Cat. 338, Asp. puberulum. 
South India, Western forests, 2,000-4,000 feet, in beds of rivers ; 
Ceylon, central provinces. 
(Also in the Mascarene Islands.) 
14. Nephrodium pennigerum. {Bl.) Caudex erect; stipes 
villous or subglabrous up to about i foot long ; fronds large up to 
4 feet long, pinnate, generally with the lower pinnae more or less 
reduced, sometimes not so ; pinnae numerous, spreading 8-10 inches 
long, i-i^ inch broad (the fertile sometimes much contracted), apex 
acuminate, margin cut down only about' \ towards the rachis 
into oblong falcate lobes ; texture herbaceous, rachis villous, upper 
surface strigose on the main costa, otherwise glabrous or often more 
or less strigose particularly near the margins, under surface villous 
on the veins; veins 8-12 pair, the 5-6 lower ones generally, rarely 
only 3, anastomosing ; sori medial on the veins ; involucre reniform, 
generally persistent Aspid. pennigerum, Bl. E?t. PI. J^av. Fil. 153. 
Jlook. Syn. Fil. 292. Neph. abruptum, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 86. Asp. 
multilineatum. Wall. Cat. 353. Neph. glandulosum, var. laete- 
strigosa, Clarke., F. N. I. p. 532. Neph. pennigerum var. multilineata, 
Clarke. I. c. p. 532. Neph. abortivum {y . Sm.)^ Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 292. 
South India, common in all the Western mountain forests ; 
Ceylon, central provinces, 2,000-4,000 feet ; East Bengal, from Misb- 
mee to Chittagong, at no great elevation. (Clarke's specimens of 
glandulosum var. laete-strigosa and pennigerum var. multilineata are 
quite the same as the South Indian plant.) Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay Islands and Tropical Africa.) 
15. Nephrodium MOLLE. {Desv.) Rhizome tufted, or more 
rarely creeping ; stipe and main rachis beneath pubescent, shortly 
