Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 415 
erect, short ; stipe of the barren frond, 2-4 inches long, of the fertile 
often I foot long, dark chesnut-brown, glossy densely fibrillose 
towards the base ; fronds 2-3 inches each way, cordate-hastate, the 
barren ones bluntish at the apex, with generally rounded (rarely 
pointed) basal lobes and a deep sinus, the fertile ones with the lobes 
more produced and pointed, texture more or less coriaceous, gla- 
brous above, somewhat villous beneath ; areoles oblique, numerous, 
free veinlets none or very rare. 
{Roxb), Bedd. F. S. I. t. 53. 
South India, common in 
the plains and on the moun- 
tains up to nearly 3,000 feet 
elevation ; East Bengal plains ; 
Ceylon ; Birma. 
(Also in the Philippines.) 
2. Hemionitis Grif- 
FiTHii. {Hook. Fil. et Thorns.) 
Rhizome short creeping; stipes 
paleaceous and Ooarsely hir- 
sute, 8-12 inches long ; fronds 
12-16 incheslong, 6-ioinches 
broad, subdeltoid, pinnatifid 
or pinnate with 2-4 pinnae on 
each side, which are i-ii 
inch broad, entire or cre- 
nated, acuminate, texture 
herbaceous, rachis and both 
surfaces hairy on the venation ; main veins prominent, generally 
barren, the veinlets reticulated into copious areoles all soriferous, 
rarely there are free included veinlets, which are also soriferous. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. V. 192. DictyocHne Griffithii {Moore), Bedd. F. B 1. 
i- 155- 
Khasya, Cherra, 4,000-5000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Formosa.) 
