410 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
are quite lost ; midrib visible in the barren lower half, veins forked 
or rarely with two branches, veinlets slightly clavate at the apex not 
reaching the margin, margin beyond the soral groove very thick. 
Kuhn^ Linncea^ 36,/. 68. Tgeniopsis falcata, Bedd. F. B. 1. t. 1"]$. 
Ceylon, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation, the forked venation is ab- 
normal in the genus. 
GENUS LXXVllL— TJENITIS. {Willd.) 
(From tainia^ a fillet or ribbon.) 
Veins reticulated, forming oblong hexagonal obHque areoles ; 
sori linear, but the line sometimes interrupted, forming a transverse 
band between the midrib and margin ; fronds adherent to the caudex. 
I. T^NiTis BLECHNOiDES. {^Sw.) Rhizomc creeping, setose ; 
stipes 8-12 inches long, firm, naked, glossy; fronds 1-2 feet long, 
8-12 inches broad, pinnate ; pinnae of barren frond 2-3 on each side, 
1-2 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, the point acuminate, the edge 
thickened and wavy, the base cuneate, the lower ones stalked, fertile 
pinnae more numerous and narrower, texture coriaceous, areoles 
copious, oblique, without free veinlets ; sori in a continuous (rarely 
interrupted) line, about midway between the edge and midrib. 
SiuarfZj Syn. Fil. 24 and 220. Hook. Syn. Fil. 397. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. 54. 
Ceylon, in the forests about Galle ) Malay Peninsula, in Tenas- 
serim and further south; Sylhet (?). 
(Also in the Philippines.) 
GENUS LXXIX.— DRYMOGLOSSUM. (Presl) 
{Dryjnos, wood ;g/ossa, tongue). 
Veins obscure, compoundly anastomosing in the sterile fronds, 
forming 3-4 series of areoles between the midrib and the margin, 
each including simple or forked free veinlets, with clavate apices ; 
fronds articulate with the caudex, dimorphous, the sterile broad and 
