Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 397 
arm, clothed with shagg/ dark-brown ferruginous subulate-lanceolate 
scales, |-i inch long; stipes stout, firm, 3-4 inches long, scaly only 
at the base ; fronds coriaceous bright-green (Lomarla-like), pinnate, or 
occasionally below partially bipinnate; pinnae numerous, close, horizon- 
tal, 5-6 inches long, 4 lines broad, base cordate, linear-oblong, acumi- 
nate, finely serrate. Hook. Syn. Fil. 390. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 139. 
Khasya Hills, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation, Pomrang and Jainka ; 
Malay Peninsula, in Tenasserim, the fir forests (Parish), on Mooleyit, 
4,000 feet (Beddome.) 
(Also in Hong Kong.) 
GENUS LXXV.— MENISCIUM. (Schreb.) 
{Meniskos, cresent ; shape of fructification,) 
Sori naked, oblong or linear, occupying the transverse connivent 
veinlets ; veins pinnate, veinlets numerous, the opposite ones uniting 
in an arc or angle, and sending out from the angle a free or con- 
tinuous venule ; fronds simple or pinnate, (only differs from Goni- 
opteris in the shape of the sori.) 
I. Meniscium TRiPHYLLUM. (6'z£^.) Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, 
with chesnut lanceolate-linear scales at the extremities ; stipes slender, 
slightly pubescent, of the fertile frond i foot long or more, of the 
sterile often shorter ; fronds 3-foliate or with 5 or more pinnae, the 
terminal one much the largest, all oblong-lanceolate with a broad 
base and acute apex, about 4-6 inches long by f-il inch broad, 
stalked or subsessile, margin entire or subrepand, the fertile ones often 
narrower, texture herbaceous,' slightly pubescent beneath; areoles 
6-9 between midrib and margin. Sw. Syn. Fil. 19, 206. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. 391. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 56. Wall. Cat. 61. 
South India, Bolampatty Valley, Anamallays, Travancore, 2,000 
-3000 feet elevation, gregarious and forming very large beds, nearly 
always trifoliate, rarely 5-foliate; Ceylon, Matale and Saffragam, 2,000- 
3,000 feet; North India, Eastern Bengal, Cachar, Chittagong, Sikkim, 
at no great elevation; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in China and Philippines.) 
