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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



lower pinnae 4-8 inches long, lanceolate, pinnules quite distinct, 

 i-i^- inches long, the lower ones cut down nearly 

 to the rachis into numerous pinnatind oblong del- 

 toid segments ; sori 2-6 to the lower segments ; 

 indu.sium cup-shaped, subglobose. Wall. Cat. 

 Dicksonia, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 54. Dennstaedtia 

 deltoidea, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 258. 



Ceylon, central provinces ; Himalayas, Kumaon 

 to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet; Khasya, 4,000-6,000 

 feet ; Birma and the Malay Peninsula generally, very 

 common. 



2. Dennstaedtia Elwesii. {Baker, under Pa- 

 taniai) Fronds lanceolate, tripinnatifid, 1-1-J foot 

 long ; rachis stramineous glabrous ; pinna? lanceolate, 

 nearly sessile, 3-4 inches long, §— J inch broad, the 

 rachis flattened ; pinnules 20-30-jugate, lanceolate, 

 sessile cuneate at the base, i\— 2 lines broad, deeply 

 pinnatind ; segments ligulate, erecto-patent, many 

 entire parallel, lowest on the upper side often bifid, both sides 

 glabrous ; veins solitary in the centre of each segment ; sorus 

 covering the entire apex of the segmeLt. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 54. 

 Bedd. Suppl. to Ferns, t. 347. 



Sikkim, near Lachen, 8,500 feet; Choongtam, 9,000 feet. 



3. Dennstaedtia appendiculata. {Wall, under Dicksonia}) 

 Fronds oblong or lanceolate, bipinnate, 12-18 inches long, 6 inches 

 broad ; rachis hairy ; pinna? close together, their rachises parallel, 

 lower ones linear-lanceolate, 3-4 inches long, cut down to the rachis ; 

 pinnules linear-oblong, \ inch long, 2 lines broad, pinnatifid into 

 linear segments, under surface glandulosely pilose; sori 2-6 to 

 a pinnule placed at the base of the sinuses ; indusium cup- 

 shaped, globose. Wall. Cat. 65. Dicksonia (Patania) appendiculata. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 54. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 82. 



Senchal above Darjeeling, 8,500 feet ; Lachen Valley, in Sikkim, 

 Nepal ; Kumaon Gori Valley, 5,500 feet ; Banks of the Vishnugunga, 

 above Panchkisar, 8,000-9,000 feet. 



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DENNSTAEDTIA 

 SCABRA. ( IVa/I.) 



