320 Fkrxs ok British India and Ceylon. 
minute, not hair-pointed ; stipe 3-4 inches long, naked, stramineous, 
very slender; frond oblong-deltoid, 3-4 inches long, ii-2 inches 
broad, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, lobes 5-10 jugate, ligulate blunt, 
3-4 lines broad, obscurely reparid, adnate, only the lowest narrowed 
at the base, on the lower side scarcely shortened, texture rigidly 
subcoriaceous ; rachis and costas below and under surface pilose ; 
main veins raised, very distinct to nearly the edge, costal areoles in 
one or two series, the second series when present generally without a 
free veinlet in lower areole, sometimes forked, or rarely netted and 
graduating into the venation of Pleopeltis ; sori in a single series in 
the lower areoles. Mett, Kuhn. Linn. 36, /. 135, Hook. Syn. Fil. 
511. Bedd. K B. 1. Sup, 382 . 
iVll my specimens from Messrs. Clarke and Atkinson have 
typical Goniophlebium venation, so also have nearly all the speci- 
mens at Kew. Mr. Clarke, however, has removed the species to 
Pleopeltis, because some specimens gathered by him have the costal 
areoles less defined and the veinlets somewhat netted and graduat- 
ing into the venation of Pleopeltis. I look upon these as abnor- 
mal, the whole habit of the plant being that of Goniophlebium. 
Sikkim, Lacheen, 9,000-1 1 ,000 feet elevation, Yakla valley, 
8,000 feet. 
5. Goniophlebium Hendersoni. {Atkinson, MS.) Rhizome 
very slender, glaucous, wide-creeping, clothed with hair-pointed 
scales ; stipes 3-4 inches long, naked or scaly, very slender, 
grey, stramineous ; fronds narrow-lanceolate 8-10 inches long, 
i\-2 inches broad, deeply nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, or 
the lower lobes or pinnae quite free ; pinnae or lobes 20-30 pair, 
patent lanceolate acute, 3-4 lines broad, distantly incised, all except 
the lowest dilated at their base, texture moderately firm, surfaces 
green, naked ; areoles and sori uniserial, the latter near the midrib, 
not crowded, occasionally the veins are all or nearly all quite free and 
not anastomosing, or forming areoles, costal arches of the main 
rachis prominent, very long and narrow, absent of course at the base 
of the larger fronds, where it is pinnate, not pinnatifid. Hook. Syn. 
Filp.^w. Bedd. R B. 1. t. I'^i. 
