Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
323 
somewhat cordate or truncated and occasionally auricled base, linear- 
lanceoiate, finely and gradually acuminated, serrated ; veins forming a 
double costular series of areoles, including a free venule, of which the 
lower series is soriferous, mar- 
ginal veinlets free ; sori in a 
single series forming slightly 
elevated pustules on the superi- 
or side. Fil.Jav.p. 177, /. 
83. Hook. Sp. Fil. V. 32. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 78. 
Khasya, 3,000-5,000 feet 
elevation ; Malay Peninsula. 
N?I73. 
GONIOPHLEEIUM SUBAURICULATUM. (i)V.) 
(Also in Malay Islands and Queensland.) 
9. GONIOPHLEBIUM ARGUTUxM 
Rhizome thick as a writing- 
quill, squarrose with ovate-acute 
short blackish or brown glossy 
spreading scales, stipes 3-4 
inches to a span long, brown 
glossy ; fronds firm-membra- 
naceous, glabrous, 1-2 feet 
long, 8-10 inches broad, pin- 
nated, pinnae distant sub 
horizontally patent, 4-6 inches 
long, \-\ inch wide, from a 
broader but obtusely and ob- 
lique cuneated or subtruncated 
base (rarely rotundate-auricled) 
elongate-oblong, acuminate, 
rather obtusely serrated, lower 
ones often opposite, the rest 
alternate, superior ones more 
{Wall, under Polypodiuin.) 
N°I74-. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM ARGUTUM. {Wall.) 
or less adnate and decurrent, terminal one similar to the rest, veins 
forming a costal series of large oblong soriferous areoles ; marginal 
veins ending in a thickened apex within the margin all free ; sori super- 
