Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



5i 



4. Leucostegia assamica. (Bedd. under Acrophorus,) Rhizome 

 creeping, covered with numerous imbricated chaffy golden, ovate- 

 acute scales ; fronds glabrous, shining, 8-14 inches long (including 

 the stipe, which is 2-3 inches), 2-3 inches broad, subcoriaceous 

 lanceolate, pinnate with the primary pinnse alternate or opposite, 

 pinnatifid almost to the rachis, lower cnes petiolate, upper ones 

 decurrent so as to form a regular wing to the rachis, pinnules 

 pinnatifid, segments toothed, each bearing one sorus, veins 

 terminating within the margin ; 

 involucres , as in the genus, as 

 broad as deep. Bedd. F. B. 

 I.t.94. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 467. 



Bhotan, Mishmee, and by 

 the Dihonsr. 



5. Leucostegia immersa. 

 ( Wall.) Rhizome creeping stout, 

 fibrillose ; stipe 4-8 inches long, 

 strong, erect; fronds 12-18 

 inches long, 6-9 inches broad, 

 deltoid, tripinnate, glabrous ; 

 lowest pinnule lanceolate and 

 deltoid, 2-3 inches long, 1 inch 

 broad, with broad segments, 

 which are obliquely truncate 

 at the base below, and roundly 



lobed with the lobes again crenate above ; texture herbaceous ; 

 sori large, impressed, clearly visible from the upper side, 1-6 to a 

 segment, oblique ; involucre broader than long. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 91. 

 Bedd. F. S. I. t. n. 



Madras Presidency on the Western mountains ; very abundant in 

 Coorg, growing on trees. Himalayas, from Mussorrie to Bhotan, 

 3, 000-6, coo feet. Sikkim, Khasya, Parasnath, and the Malay 

 F'eninsula. 



(Also in Java.) 



N°24-. 



LEUCOSTEGIA ASSAMICA. 



{Bedd.) 



