22 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2. Woodsia lanosa. (Hook.) Like hyperborea, but the frond 

 densely ferruginous, with soft long hairs and scales, stipe also villous 

 or lanate, but becoming glabrous in age. Perhaps a very tomentose 

 variety of No. i. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 47. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 341. 



Only in Northern India — mountains of Kumaon ; Pindari, 12,000 

 feet; above Namik, 11,600 feet; Sikkim Lachen, 14,000 to 16,000 

 feet; Mount Donkia, 18,000 feet. 



3. Woodsia elongata. {Hook) Glandulosely pilose; fronds 

 up to 12 inches long by 1-— 1-§ inch broad, narrow oblong pinnate, 

 pinnae rather distant alternate sessile from a broadish base, oblong 

 obtuse, pinnatifid not more than half down, lobes short, rounded, 

 dentate ; sori globose, much elevated ; indusium larger than the 

 sorus, very membranaceous, globose, soon bursting with a lacerated 

 apex, not ciliated. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 47. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 14. 



Himalayas, from Dhurmsala to Sikkim, 8,000 to 12,000 feet; 

 common. 



GENUS IX.— PERANEMA. (Don.) 



(reri, around ; nema, a thread; the sorus on a thread-like stalk.) 



Sori globose, on the back of a vein or veinlet ; indusium in- 

 ferior, globose, coriaceous, pedicellate, at first enclosing the whole 

 sorus, at length bursting vertically into two spreading lips ; veins 

 free, forked, clavate ; fronds large, decompound. Sphaeropteris, 

 Wallich. 



1. Peranema cyatheoides. (Don.) Fronds up to 4-6 feet 

 high, stipate, deltoid decompound, ultimate pinnules sessile, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, half an inch long, pinnatifid, repand, or crenate ; 

 main rachis scaly or pubescent. Don. Fr. Fl. Nep. p. 12. Bedd. 

 F S. I. t. 73. Sphaeropteris barbata, Wall. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 49. 



Nepal and Bhotan, 6,000-10,000 feet; Khasya, 4,500-6,000 

 feet ; Anamallays, 6, coo feet. 



