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the C. P. 1314, from the Peradeniya Herbarium, and called on the ticket A, 
Asplenium (Athyrium) gymnogrammoides, Kl. agree also with the description in 
the Syn. Fil. for A. (Athyr ) nigripes, Bl. p. 227. with this exception that 
the lower pinnae are not often six to nine inches long, and that instead of be- 
ing “ cut down to the rachis into, numerous elliptico-rhomboidal piunules, 
which are broadly lobed about half way down and the lobes slightly toothed/’ 
our Ceylon Fern has the lower pinnae from three to five inches long, with 
numerous alternate or sub opposite, stalked or subsessile pinnules, which are 
decurren tow r ards the ends of the pinnae ; the pinnules ' being sub-falcate, 
lanceotatte, with an auricle on the upper side, running parellel with the rachis, 
whilst the lower sides next the rachis are quite oblique. The rachis is slender, 
straight straw colored, and not jlexuose as described and figured by Beddome. 
Amongst my numerous specimens I have not a single tripinnate one of this 
form. A few of my specimens have the pinnae and the pinnules so close to 
each other that they overlap to a considerable extent, and I have a few, evi- 
dently young fronds, grown in rich soil, with the pinnules nearly entire with 
the exception of a lprge basal aricle. The sori are young and they and the 
pinnules have a light golden color. I noted these as a species of Diplazium, and 
I find that Mr. Baker made the same remark on similar specimens in Mr. 
Wall’s collection, I have no form of this abundant fern which connects it 
with Nos. 95/1 and 95/2. 
It is a good deal like small forms of 124; (Nephrodium (Lastrea) sparsum) 
in general appearance, but the involucres are different, and the shining golden 
appearance of these on No. 95, when the specimens are nicely dried, is a 
characteristic distinction. 
95/1. Aspl ilium (Athyrium) gymnogrammoides, Klotsch. 
Bed. 1. t. 156. Beddome gives no description for this plate, but after 
that of 1. t. 155 for A (Athy.) pectinatum, Wallich ; corrected in the letter-press 
of 11. t. 295., into A. (A.) aspidioides, Schl: he has the following remarks: — 
“ A very variable species, the figure represents nearly two-thirds of a a frond 
(the apex and stipe wanting). Athyrium aspidiodes, Schl: is, I believe, only 
one of the more compound and more finely cut varieties of this species, there 
are numerous intermediate forms — Athyrium gymnogrammoides, Kl. specimens of 
which I have received from Ceylon through Mr. Thwaites (C, P. 1344) seems 
to differ in in its much larger pinnae, (14 inches long,) and in its more re- 
gular Asplenoid sori. Plate No. 156 is a drawing from Mr. Thwaites’s speci- 
men, it is recorded by Sir W. Hooker as from the Nilgiris, but I have never 
myself met with it.” Beddome’s 1. t. 156, and the allusion to the size of his 
Ceylon specimens, are both pretty good for a large coarse, rough, and deeply 
toothed fern found lately by me close to Mr. McCall’s house on the banks of 
the river in Maskeliya, and no where else by me. This fern is so different 
from any other known to me that I shall give a few notes descriptive of it. 
The sori on this fern are generally so long and straight, that I looked through 
all Beddome’s figures of Diplaziums for it, and concluded it to be near A (Dipla- 
zium) polypodiodes, but a subsequent look convinced me it had characters 
agreeing more with the Athyriums, and an examination of some specimens 
of a large Athyrium collected by Mr. McMicking near Neura Eliya, confirmed 
me in this view, and also that my fern is likely to be a very coarse 
luxuriant form of Athyrium gymnogra mmoides. I had written thus far 
when Mr. Wall very kindly sent for my inspection a set of Diplaziums 
which he submitted for the opinion of Mr. Thwaites, and which were sup- 
posed to connect the C. P. Nos. 3100 and 3332. In this packet I find some 
specimens of my Maskeliya fern above referred to, on the ticket of which Mr. 
Thwaites has written “ C. P. 1344, a coarse form.” I cannot perceive any re- 
semblance between the specimens of C. P. 1344 already referred to at 95, except 
that the sori in both are “ principally in two parallel rows close to the midribs 
of the pinnules” ex Baker. Referring to my remarks on 95, I now give some 
noteg descriptive of my coarse Maskeliya fern, following the order in Syn. 
Fil : Stipes tufted, 2 to 3 feet long, dark brown, erect, exceedingly asperous, 
especially when growing, having dark prickles, and straw colored peltale scales 
