Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 383 
tufted mass of fibres ; stipes tufted, glossy brown, slender, filiform, 
1-4 inches long; fronds small 2-4 inches long, i-ii inch broad, 
delicate, membranaceous very transparent, ovate or deltoid, all 
fertile, varying from reniform crenated to variously pinnate or 
bi-tripinnate, those on the shorter stipes being less compound, pinnae 
spathulate to obovate, decurrent, deeply crenated, lobes entire or 
serrulate ; veins simple or forked, not reaching the margin ; sori 
N?220. 
GYMNOGRAMME LErTOPHYLLA. {Desv.) 
oblong, simple or forked. Desv. Journ. Bot. \. p. 26. Hook. Sp. FiL 
v. 136. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 270. Anogramma, Link. 
Western ghats of the Peninsula of India, Ootacamund, Ma- 
hableswar, Suttara Fort walls. 
(Also in Europe, the Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Africa, Persia, 
Australia, New Zealand, South America.) 
