328 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Sikkim and Bhotan, 4,000-6,000 feet elevation ; Khasya, 
3,000-5,000 feet. This is very near the Japan Lingua, but it appears 
to differ sufficiently to be considered a species, besides the filamen- 
tous hairs radiating round the scales, which it requires a magnifying 
glass to detect, the habit is somewhat different and the scales of the 
rhizome more free and copious. 
5. NiPHOBOLUS PANNOSUS. {Mett.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 
slender, scales linear, dark coloured, closely adpressed ; stipes up to 
6 inches long, stellately scaly ; 
fronds lanceolate up to 6 inches 
long by inch broad, nar- 
rowed at both ends, coriaceous, 
glabrous above, at least in age, 
beneath densely matted with 
stellate scales, the rays of which 
are hair-like ; areoles in about 
seven series between the costa 
and margin, each including 2- 
4 veinlets which are simple, 
forked^ free, or variously anas- 
tomosing ; sori crowded, rather 
small, 5-6 in a row between 
the main veins, not reaching 
the margins. MetL Kuhn. 
Linn. 36,/. 141. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. 512. Niphobolus Lingua, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 240. 
Ceylon, up to 3,000 feet elevation; Tenasserim. 
6. Niphobolus STiGMOSUS. {Sw) Rhizome wide-creeping, stout 
rufous-paleaceous with slender subulate scales ; stipes subaggregate, 
1-6 1 inches long, angled ; fronds a span to \\-2 feet and more long, 
1-2-3 inches and more broad, firm, coriaceous, in age glabrous 
above, beneath densely stellate-tomentose and subfurfuraceous (tomen- 
tum forming a close coat), lanceolate or suboblanceolate acuminate, 
J^?I77. 
NIPHOBOLUS PANNOSUS. {Mctt.) 
