322 Ferns of British It^dia a^nd Ceylojsj. 
Himalayas, dividing ridge between Sikkim and Nepal, and north 
of the Jongri, ii,ooo to 13,000 feet elevation, very abundant. 
6. GoNioPHLEBiUM MiCRORHizoMA. {Clarke.) Rhizome i Une 
thick, firm wide-creeping, clothed with grey-brown ovate or lanceolate 
scales, not hair-pointed; base of the rachis often with a few similar scales; 
stipes 4-5 inches long; fronds lanceolate, often caudate at the apex, 
about I foot long by 3-4 inches wide, deeply nearly to the rachis 
pinnatifid, the lowest pinnae sometimes free ; pinnae 20-30 pair, 
patent lanceolate acute, 3-4 lines broad, distantly incised, texture her- 
baceous, rachis glabrous above, castaneous beneath ; areoles and sori 
uniserial, or all the veins often quite free, and not forming areoles. 
Clarke, F. N. I. 551. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 511. Bedd.F. B. I. t. 384. 
Kashmir to Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet elevation, very common. 
* * Fronds distinctly pinnate throughout. 
7. GoNioPHLEBiUM MOLLE. {Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, size 
of the stem of a tobacco pipe, densely covered with reddish brown 
subulate scales ; fronds i \ foot long, 7-8 inches broad, oblong acu- 
minate membranaceous, pinnae numerous, 3-4 inches long, ^ an inch 
wide, furnished on both sides as is the rachis with soft weak whitish 
hairs, sinuate-crenate, superior base often subauricled, superior ones 
decurrent on the rachis, remainder sessile from a broad base, or 
inferior ones subpetiolate ; veins forming two series of areoles, the 
lower of which has the soriferous veinlet arising from the side of the 
areole distant from the costa, marginal veinlets free or rarely uniting, 
simple or forked. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 206. Polypodium Beddomei 
{Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. 2nd Edit. 344. 
Malay Peninsula, in Tenasserim. 
8. GONIOPHLEBIUM SUBAURICULATUM. {Bl. Under Folypodiuni). 
Rhizome creeping, stoloniferous, densely clothed with narrow acumi- 
nate, often hair-pointed scales, subpruinate ; stipes a span to a foot 
and more long, sparingly paleaceous, rufous-brown; fronds firm, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, 2-6 feet long, a foot and more wide, pinnated, 
pinnas horizontal, numerous yet remote, 3-10 inches long, i to nearly 
\ an inch wide, shortly petioled and jointed on the rachis from a 
