Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 469 
South India, Western forests in swampy places up to 3,000 
feet elevation ; Ceylon, about Colombo and other parts of Western 
and Southern provinces ; North India, Bengal plains to Assam and 
Cachar; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Tropical Australia, Malay Islands, Philippines and 
New Caledonia.) 
GENUS XCVIII.— BOTRYCHIUM. {Sw.) 
{Botrysy a bunch ; fructification like a bunch of grapes.) 
Capsules sessile, arranged in two rows, on the face of spikes which 
form a compound panicle ; veins forked, free ; fronds erect, the 
sterile segments foliaceous, deltoid, bi-tripinnat- 
ifidly compound, rarely pinnate ; fertile segments 
rachiform, compound paniculate. 
I. BoTRYCHiUM LuNARiA. (Z. under Os- 
munda.) Rhizome small, scarcely thickened, 
enclosed by brown sheaths furnished with stoutish 
fleshy brittle branched roots; stipes erect, smooth, 
cylindrical, hollow, succulent, vernation plicate or n?293. 
folded straight, the fertile branch clasped by the botrychium 
sterile before unfolding, fronds soHtary, 3-10 Lunaria. (Z.) 
inches high, firm, stout fleshy, sterile branch oblong, pinnate smooth, 
pinnae 4-7 pairs flabellate or lunate, the margins crenate (rarely 
partially fertile) fertile branch pinnate or bipinnate ; venation (barren 
pinnae) flabellately-farcate, i.e. the vein enters at the base and is re- 
peatedly forked, veins not quite extending to the margin. Linn. Sp. 
PI. 1519. Sw. Syn. Fil. 171. Bedd. F. B. I. t 208. 
North India, Sikkim, Lachen, 11,000-13,000 feet elevation, 
Kumaon, 12,000 feet. 
(Also the arctic and cold temperate zone, extending to South 
Europe ; Patagonia ; Australia.) 
2. Botrychium daucifolium. {Wall) Stipes stout, 6-12 
