Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
399 
Var. ft Parishii, pinnae 9-13, Tenasserim and Mishmee. 
Bddd. F. B. I. t. 184; this probably runs into the type, but there is 
nothing like it in South India. 
2. Meniscium Thwaitesii. {Hook) Rhizome wide-creeping, 
thick as a crowquill, stipes 9-12 inches long, angled, naked except 
at the base, fronds 8-10 inches long, 4-6 inches broad at base, 
deltoid or subdeltoid, the apex acuminate and more or less pinnatifid, 
below which are several linear oblong rather deeply crenated 
MENISCIUM Thwaitesii. {Hook.) meniscium salicifolium. {Wall.) 
pinnae, the lowest stalked, the others sessile or subsessile, i-i inch 
broad, often suddenly narrowed at the base, texture herbaceous, 
below a little pubescent, above glabrous or nearly so, except the 
costa ; areoles generally 5 series between the costa and margin. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 391. Bedd. F S. I. t 223. 
South India, Nilgiris, west slopes below Sispara, 3,000 feet 
elevation ; Ceylon, Matale, 3,000 feet elevation. 
3. Meniscium salicifolium. (Wall.) Stipe i foot or more 
long, stramineous or pale-brown, glossy; fronds 12-18 inches long. 
