Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 279 
Var. 7 AUREUM. {Clarke^ F. N. I. p. 533.) Differs by having 
the minute pubescence bright and golden, the fertile fronds longer 
than the barren, and the pinnae sometimes contracted near the base ; 
the frond truncate at the base, i.e.^ the lower pinna not reduced. It 
is to be feared that none of these characters are permanent. It is a 
form from Sikkim and Bhotan, 1,000-4,000 feet elevation, and 
from Assam. 
AspiDiUM MULTijUGUM. {Wall. Cat. 348.) Taken by Mr. 
Clarke in his type of var. midtijuga^ is typical exte7isiim {Bl.) 
Var. didymosorum. {Parish, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 200.) From 
Tenasserim ; is a very hairy form of molle, lower pinn3e not at all 
reduced, sori twin, confined to the two lower vt inlets (the latter 
character probably not constant.) Wall. Cat. 354, Asp. canescens, 
from Singapore, second sheet, is this plant. 
Asp. tectum ( Wallich, Cat. 394, in Linnaean Herb.) is a deltoid 
form of molle with no reduction of the lower pinnae, and a creeping 
root. 
16. Nephrodium crinipes. {HooJz) Stipe up to \\ foot long, 
stout, erect, clothed, as is the main rachis, with lanceolate-linear 
brown scales ; fronds about 2-3 feet long, pinnate, dwarfed below 
into auricles ; pinnae horizontal, 4-6 1 inches long, \-\ inch broad, 
cut down l-f towards the midrib into oblong scarcely acute lobes, 
the upper basal one often somewhat enlarged ; texture herbaceous ; 
veins beneath minutely puberulous ; costa, costules and veins spar- 
ingly furnished with longish hairs above ; veins 6-8 on a side, the 
two lowest pair anastomosing; sori medial, but a little nearer the apex 
than the costule ; indusium reniform glabrous persistent. Hook. 
Syn. Fil. 294. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 263. 
North-east Bengal, up to 1,500 feet elevation, from Nepal to 
Assam and Chittagong ; Malacca (Mr. Clarke's Nilgiri example is 
a portion of a contracted fertile frond of pennigerum.) 
17. Nephrodium ferox. {Moore.) Stipe 1-2 feet long 
