Ferns of British India and Clylon. 453 
10-15 inches long by 2-3 lines broad, bearing a digitate fertile crest at 
the apex ; crest 8-14, parted to the base, segments i inch long by a 
line broad; sori in 4 series 2 series each side the costa). 
Szu. Syn. FiL 150, 380, t, 4. Bedd. F. S. I. 268. 
North India, Khasya and Chittagong ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay Islands ; Fiji and Philippines.) 
GENUS XCL— ANEMIA. {Sw.) 
(From aneimon^ naked — the naked spikes.) 
Capsules small, very abundant, forming a copiously branched 
panicle quite distinct from the leafy part of the frond ; fronds pinnate 
or bi-tripinnatifid ; veins free. 
I. Anemia tomentosa. {Sw^ Stipes 6-12 inches long 
strong, erect, clothed with deciduous ferruginous hairs ; fronds ter- 
nately divided, the two lateral branches fertile, the terminal one spread- 
ing, sterile bipinnate, with the pinnules variously lobed or pinnatifid, 
texture herbaceous, rachis and both surfaces pilose ; veins fine, fla- 
bellate. Hook. Syn. FiL 433. Anemia Wightiana (Gard.)^ Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. 66. 
South India, Nilgiris (Sispara ghat), Anamallays, Pulney Hills, 
Travancore Hills, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Mexico, Peru and West Indies.) 
GENUS XCII.— LYGODIUM. {S^u.) 
{Lygodes^ flexible — the climbing habit.) 
Capsules solitary (or casually in pairs), in the axils of large im- 
bricated clasping involucres, which form spikes either in separate 
pinnse or in lax rows along the edge of the leafy ones ; fronds scan- 
dent, pinnae conjugate palmate-lobed, pinnatifid or pinnate ; veins 
forked, free. 
