Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 281 
19. Nephrodium brachyodon. {Hook ) Stipes tufted, 1-2 
feet long, greyish naked : fronds up to 3 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae 
petiolate, often contracted at base, 6-9 inches long, i-|-if inches 
broad cut about one-third or half-way down into blunt sHghtly falcate 
lobes, lower pinnae not much smaller than the others ; texture sub- 
coriaceous; rachis naked or slightly pubescent, upper surface glabrous, 
except the partial rachis which is slightly hairy, under surface gla- 
brous except the rachis and costules which are slightly hairy ; veins 
8-12, all free or the lower one anastomosing and with sometimes an 
excurrent veinlet, a single vein generally rises from the rachis of 
the pinnae, between the pinnate groups of veins and runs to the mar- 
gin ; sori medial on the veins ; involucre reniform. Hook. Syn. Fil. 
NEPHRODIUM TRUNCATUM. {PtCsL) 
295. Bedd. F. B. I. 379. The lower pair of veins only occasionally 
anastomose in the Malay Peninsula plant, but in the West Indian 
plant several pairs generally join ; the two plants, however, seem quite 
to run one into the other, and I am afraid they also connect Lastrea 
crassifolia. 
Malacca and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in West Indies and Peru.) 
Nephrodium multijugum {Baker), given as a Malay Peninsula 
