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133. Nephrodium (Lastrea) Boryanum, Baker (non Hk.) 
Bed. 1. t. 97. My specimens of this line fern were procured from the 
edges of forest adjoining a clearing in Lindoola, and it is so like plants of 
Davallia Speluncse No. 38 that 1 ! took it to be this fern until I looked at the 
sori. When well dried it retains a great deal of its green color in the 
herbarium. 
134. Nephrodium (La3trea) setigerum, Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 99. and 171 ? See my notes on 123, N. flaccidum. The present 
one is a very common fern from the sea coast to the Central Province, has a 
large compound frond, with a wide creeping rhizome, and has a very peculiar 
glaucous color. It grows very readily, and with Davallia Speluncse is very com- 
monly cultivated in Colombo. The involucres are very seldom found on this 
fern, and hence it has been described as different species of Polypodium by 
different writers. Plants exposed to the sun curl up and do not make good 
specimens, which should be collected from good plants in a shady place, and 
put under considerable pressure to prevent their curling up. Specimens are liable 
to the attack of insects if not poisoned. “ Major Beddome considers Poly podium 
ornatum Wall (1. t. 171.) as a distinct plant, distinguishable from this by 
its erect caudex, and the constant absence of an involucre.” Baker. 
135. Nephrodium Qtaria, Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 83. This seems to be a very distinct and rare fern, found in 
Bintenne by Gardner and in company with Actiniopteris radiata, Adiantum 
lunulatum, Polypodium (N.) lingua, and Aspidium membranaceum (109,46, 
174, and 115) which are all rare ferns, at Gongama, on the lower Badu 11a road, 
or a short distance beyond it, and at Pittawella village by Beckett 
136. Nephrodium unitum, B. Br. 
Bed. 1. t. 89. This is a very common fern in the low country, growing 
on the edges of drains, fields or swampy places ; it is very abundant between 
Jaella and Dondagam, and on both sides of the road between Hangwella and 
Sitawaka. It is a good deal mixed up in nomenclature with 139, now N. cucul- 
latum of Baker, but the two ferns are quite different, the latter one being a 
stiff rigid feru compared with N. unitum. 
137. Nephrodium pteroides, J. Sm. 
Bed. I. t. 90. This is not an uncommon fern near Colombo and at Porey. 
I collected very fine specimens beyond the Budhist Temple on the roadside 
to the top of the Kurnegalle rock. It is easily distinguished from the next one, 
The sori are on the points of the divisions, hence one of its names, N. ter- 
minans. 
138. Nephrodium extensum, Hk. 
Bed. 11. t. 131. figured as N. punctatum. Parish. Baker quotes Bed. 1. 
t. 85. for this fern, but it is most unlike it, and is surely for N. molle ? 
This is C. P. (1362) Gardner’s specimen, and C. P. 975 ; and is given in En. 
PI. Zeyl. p. 392 for N. ochthodes, a form of N. prolixum. The plants C. P. 
3391 and 3498 which Th waites gives for N. extensum, Bl. is 140, N. Amboinense, 
Presl. but see what I have said at 120 N. (L.) prolixum. 138 is very abund- 
ant on the sides of drains at Galle, near Beruwella (Barberyn) on the road 
side. “This is joined to the preceding by Mettenius. The texture is more 
herbaceous, and the lobes are much narrower and deeper, with a considerable 
space between them,” Baker. This fern connects the sections Lastrea and 
Nephrodium. 
139. Nephrodium cucuUatum, Baker. 
Bed. 1. t. 88. as N. unitum, which is now 136. These two have been 
a good deal mixed up and confounded with each other. 139 is a common fern 
in the Western Province in the same places as 136, but it is one of the most 
