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two or three clavate veinlets in each, which are vaiiously directed, 
free or rarely joined to the base of the areole above ; sori large, 
partially sunk in the tomentum, often confined to the apex of the 
frond, or scattered, or covering nearly all the under surface. Bedd. F. 
B. I. t. i6t. P. Niphobolus jaintense, Clarke^ F. N. I. p. 552, /. 82. 
Khasya hills, Jaintea, Jarain, 3,500 feet elevation. Considered 
a variety of adnascens by Mr. Baker, but sufficiently distinct in its 
venation, I think, to rank as a species. 
3. Niphobolus acrostichoides. {S7v.) Rhizome wide-creep- 
ing, branched, younger portions squarrose, with rather large bright fer- 
ruginous lanceolate scales; stipes 1-3 inches long furnished at the base 
with obtuse scales; frond hard coriaceous, 1-2 feet and more long, 
f-i inch wide, glabrous above, beneath whitish or tawny, stellate- 
tomentose (tomentum very deciduous) elongate-lanceolate or linear 
obtuse ; sterile fronds generally the broadest ; areoles 5-7 between the 
costa and margin, each with 3-6 veinlets free and simple, or variously 
forked and anastomosing ; sori rather small, prominent, very compact, 
generally occupying the upper part of the frond, arranged in 6-8 
oblique very close series between the costules. ^7^/. Sy7i. Fil. p. 29 
and 225. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 44. Bedd. F. B. I. t. Zi. Polyp furfu- 
raceum. Wall. Cat. 71. 278. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula generally. I have specimens 
from Tenasserim 2 feet long and only \ inch wide. 
4. Niphobolus Heteractis. {Metf.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 
the scales copious lanceolate-linear, not adpressed golden ; stipes 
distant up to 7 inches long, more or less scaly ; fronds oblong, 
with a long acumination about 6 inches long by if inches broad, 
coriaceous, the fertile not generally contracted, upper surface glabrous, 
lower clothed with close compact stellate scales, the rays of which are 
broad, with filamentous hairs admixed ; areoles in 8-9 series 
between the costa and margin, each including 2-3 veinlets, which 
are generally forked and more or less anastomosing ; sori rather large 
and prominent. Mett. Kuhn in Linn. 36, 140. Clarke., F. N. I. p. 
535. N. Lingua, Hook. Syn Fil. 350, in parf^ and p. 512. Bedd. 
F. Supt. t. 385. 
