Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 403 
by being plicate on the upper surface, but this peculiarity occurs also 
in the South Indian plant and is not a specific character ; reticulatum 
can always be distinguished from " plantagineum by its longer and 
narrower fronds, and generally also by the presence of numerous 
barren sporangiastra. 
South India, rare, on the Tinnevelly and Travancore Moun- 
tains, 3,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon, southern and central provinces, 
up to 4,000 feet; Himalayas and Khasya, up to 5,000 feet; Malay 
Peninsula: 
(Also in Polynesia and Queensland.) 
Var. (d parvulum. 
(Bl.) Fronds very small, 1-4 
inches long, by ^-^ inch 
broad. Antr. parvulum (B/), 
FiL Jav. 78, /. 34. Hook, Sp. 
Fil. v. 170. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. 267. 
Sikkim, Yoksun, 4,500 
feet, Khasya; Penang. 
(Also injava.) 
2. Antrophyum plan- 
tagineum. {Kaulf.) Stipe 
distinct, 1-4 inches long ; 
fronds oblong, broadest to- 
wards the apex, then suddenly 
narrowed into an acute point, 
4-10 inches long, and up to 
2 inches broad, no midrib or 
an inconspicuous one towards the base ; sori deeply immersed, some- 
times distinctly raised on the upper surface making the frond pHcate 
above. Kaulf^ Bory. in Voy. de la Coq. Bot. Cry p. t. 28. Bedd. F. 
S. I. t. 52 (reticulatum). 
South India, on the Western mountains, 2,000-5,500 feet 
ANTROPHYUM LATIFOLIUM. [Bl) 
