Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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2. Humata angustata. {Wall.) Rhizome wide - creeping, 

 scaly; fronds subsessile or shortly stalked, 3-8 inches long, |-f 

 inch broad, linear, slightly and irregularly crenate at the margin, 

 Tarely once forked ; both surfaces naked ; veins parallel, simple or 

 forked thickened ; sori in a row along the edges, indusium small, 

 transversely oval. Hook. Syn. Jul. p. 88. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 237. 



The Malay Peninsula, Malacca, &x. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



3. Humata parallela. 

 fronds, 4-8 inches long, 

 \\-2 inches broad, 

 stipitate, coriaceous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, deeply pinnati- 

 fid nearly to the rachis ; 

 segments close, paral- 

 lel, horizontally patent, 

 linear or linear-oblong 

 subfalcate entire, the 

 lowermost pair some- 

 times with a solitary 

 obtuse lobe at the base 

 beneath, rarely more; 

 involucres semiorbicu- 

 lar copious marginal, 

 but all pointing towards 

 the apex of the seg- 

 ments in two close 

 parallel lines (not point- 

 ing towards the mar- 

 gins) ; veins thickened 

 t 99. 



I'.irma and the Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Polynesian Islands ) 



{Wall.) Caudex creeping, paleaceous; 



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humata parallela. 



Wall.) 



sunk. Hook. Syn. Fil 89. Bedd. F. B. I. 



