324 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
ficial at the apex of the free veins in the costal areoles. JVa//. Cat. 
n. 308. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 32. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 6. 
Himalayas, from Kaslmiir to Bhotan, 4,000-9,000 feet eleva- 
tion, very common. Closely allied to the last species. 
10. GoNioPHLEBiUM VERRUCOSUM. {Wail, under Polypodiiini^ 
Rhizome long, stout creeping, very paleaceous; stipes \\ foot and more 
long; fronds 2-3 feet long, oblong-acuminate, firm-membranaceous, 
drooping; pinnae numerous but distant, 6-9 inches long, i-ii 
inch broad, oblong costate, articulate upon the rachis, suddenly and 
shortly cuspidate-acuminate entire or serrated chiefly towards the apex, 
y'\ nearly sessile, the base obliquely cuneate ; 
primary veins slender but straight and 
parallel costuliform, forming with the 
anastomosing veins four or five series of 
areoles each with a free included veinlet, 
but of which the lowest series only is so- 
riferous ; sori in a single series next the 
costa sunk in a deep cavity, having a cor- 
responding pustule on the upper side. 
Wall. Cat. n. 296. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 31. 
Bedd. F. B. /. 257. 
Malacca and Penang. 
(Also in the Philippines.) 
Mr. J. Smith has separated these East Indian species of Gonio- 
phlebiuvi fro7n the American because the pinnce. are articulated with the 
rachis^ and he has constituted the genus Schellolepis for them. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM 
VERRUCOSUM. {Wall.) 
GENUS LXIL— NIPHOBOLUS. \Kaulf.) 
{Niphos^ of snow; bolus, a large pill — the snow-like scales and 
round sori.) 
Fronds on their under surface matted with woolly or cottony 
tomentum ; sori globose or elliptic, superficial or immersed, buried 
in the tomentum ; veins internal, obscure, pinnate, prominent or 
