Fkrns of British India and Ceylon. 331 
Polypodium porosum, IVa//. Cat. n. 266. Niph. Schmidianus, Kze. 
Bot. Zeit. \\. p. 121. Polyp, mysurense {Heyne)., Wall. Cat. 269. 
Niph. floccigerus {Mett.\ Bedd. F. Sup. t. 386. 
South India, Western mountains, 3,000-8,000 feet elevation ; 
Ceylon, central provinces ; Himalayas and Khasya, 2,000-7,000 
feet elevation ; Malay Peninsula. (The Kbasya floccigerus only 
differs in the fronds being narrower.) 
9. NiPHOBOLUS FLOCCULOSUS. 
{Doft.) Rhizome short, stout densely 
scaly, especially at base of stipes, 
with finely subulate golden scales ; 
stipes 2-8 inches long, aggregated, 
clothed as are the fronds with 
dense whitish or brownish steUate 
tomentum ; fronds 4-16 inches 
long by broad, carno^e-coria- 
ceous, lanceolate, finely acuminate, 
subsinuate, moderately attenuated 
and decurrent, or broad and une- 
qually hastate at the base, in age 
glabrous above and blackish punc- 
tate, venation immersed, costules ' 
indistinct, areoles 9-16 each whh , 
3-5 included veinlets which are \ 
generally free, simple or forked, 
more rarely anastomosing with a niphobolus flocculosus. [Den.) 
veinlet from the top of the areole ; sori scarcely sunk, small but 
slightly elevated above the tomentum, very copious, arranged in 
regular rows between the costules. Boti. Prod. Fl. Nep. i. N. 
dttergibilis. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 49. Bedd. F. B. I t. 162. P. costa- 
tum. Wall. Cat. 265, partly. 
Himalayas, Gurwhal to Bhotan, up to 5,000 feet elevation, 
Khasya, extending into the Sylhet plains. 
N° 180. 
10. NiPHOBOLUS Gardnerl (Mefte7i.) Rhizome short-creep- 
