Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
375 
much concealed by the paleaceous covering. Linn. Sp. PL 1527. 
Notholaena Marantae, i?. ^r. Nothochlaena, Zr^7i?/^. Sp. Fil. v. 120. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. i. 
Alpine Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon, rare ; Sikkim, 
9,030-15,000 feet elevation, Lachen Valley. 
(Also in South Europe and the Mediterranean region, from 
Macaronesia to the Caucasus and Abyssinia.) 
2. NoTHOL^NA VELLEA. {R. Br.) Stipes densely tufted, 
woolly, wiry, short; fronds 8-9 inches long, i-if inch broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, bipinnate, pinnae close lanceolate, the central ones the 
largest, with close roundish or oblong entire or 3-lobed pinnules, 
texture herbaceous but thick, both sides, especially the lower, coated 
with whitish or subferruginous tomentum, rachis bright chesnut- 
brown, more or less woolly. R. Br. Prod. p. 146. N. lanuginosa, 
Desv. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 370. 
Pangi and Lahul in Chumba, Cashmire. 
(Also in Afghanistan, South Europe, Madeira, Cape Verd Isles, 
Algiers.) 
GENUS LXVIL— MONOGRAMME. {Schk) 
{Mono, one ; gra?nme, a line — sori in a single line on each frond.) 
Sori subimmersed, Hnear elongated close to the midrib on one or 
both sides, the receptacles formed of a portion of the costa ; veins 
consisting only of a costa ; fronds small, grass or rush-Uke, simple or 
forked, rhizome creeping. 
I. MONOGRAMME PARADOXA. {Fee.) Rhizome creeping, hairy ; 
fronds linear filiform, grass-like, 2-12 inches long, \-\ hne broad; 
sori within a vaginiform expansion of the costa, one side of which is 
larger than the other. Fee. Vitt. p. 38. M. Junghuhnii, Hook. Sp. 
Fil. v. 123. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 210. 
Ceylon, 3,000-5,000 feet elevation, not very common. 
(Also in Java, Philippines, Queensland and Polynesian Islands.) 
