28o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
strong, densely fibrillose, the hairs long black and leaving the stem 
rough when they fall ; fronds 3-4 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae rather 
close spreading, up to 15 inches long, by |-if inches broad; apex 
very acuminate, cut down about one-third into lanceolate-falcate 
lobes : texture rigid coriaceous, both surfaces glossy ; veins very prom- 
inent, 12-15 on each side, the lower (about 5) pairs anastomosing, the 
excurrent veinlet joined throughout and very prominent ; sori basal on 
the veins close to the costule. Hook. Syji. Fil. 294. Bedd. F. N. I. 
t. 129. 
Kumaon. (Mr. Clarke doubts the Himalayan locality, but 
there are specimens in Kew Herbarium supposed to have been 
collected there, and I received it from the Calcutta Herbarium as 
Himalayan.) 
(Also in Java and the Philippines.) 
18. Nephrodium TRUNCATUM. {Fnsl.) Rhizome short, erect, 
stipes tufted stout erect up to 2 feet long, greyish naked or slightly 
pubescent ; fronds pinnate up to 4 feet long, the lower pinnae re- 
duced often to mere auricles ; rachis slightly pubescent or glabrous ; 
pinnae numerous up to 11 inches long by if inch broad, acuminate 
at the apex, sessile or subsessile and often somewhat contracted 
towards the base, cut down about half-way to the partial rachis into 
oblong lobes which are more or less square at the apex and crenated ; 
texture herbaceous, upper surface generally glabrous, lower glabrous 
or slightly pubescent on the costa and veins, and sometimes with 
glandular dots ; veins 6-9 pairs, generally the two, rarely 3-4 lower 
anastomose ; sori small medial or nearer the costule than the margin ; 
involucre reniform. Fresl. Tent. Pter. 81. Hook. Syn, Fil. 294. 
Neph. eusorum (Thw.), Bedd. F. S. I. 130. Asp. prionophyllum, 
Wall. Cat 355. Asp. multilineatum, Wall. Cat. 353, froju Singa- 
po7'e. Wall. -^^^2, T^rd sheet. 
South India, Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills ; Ceylon, Cen- 
tral Provinces, 2,000-5,000 feet elevation ; Cachar and Chittagong 
Plills at no elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Malay Islands, North Australia, and Polynesia.) 
