16 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



North Arcot and Cuddapa Hills, Jeypore, &c, and probably general 

 through the northern Circars in moist shady places on the hills ; 

 Himalayas, very common in Sikkim, Nepal, &c. ; Burmah and 

 Ceylon. 



(Also in the Malay Islands and S. China.) 



The hairs of the rachis are exaggerated in my figure quoted above. 



9. Alsophila crinita. (Hook.) A lofty tree fern ; stipes 

 and main rachis stramineous, brown, hispid-paleaceous, and 

 strongly muricate ; spines short, tipped with a black gland ; fronds 

 subcoriaceous ; rachises above pilose, beneath and on the costse 

 densely paleaceous-crinite ; scales sometimes short and minute, 

 generally elongate and adpressed; primary pinnae 2 feet long, 10 inches 

 wide ; pinnules oblong acuminate, sessile pionatifid neaily to the 

 costules ; lobes narrow-oblong, sub-obtuse, falcate, the margins 

 recurved, serrated ; costa and veins often pilose; veinlets forked; sori 

 covering the whole under side of the lobes mixed with ciliate 

 scales. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 42. Bedd. F S.I. t. 59. 



, Nilgiris, Pulneys, and Anamallays, 5,000-7,000 ft. elevation. 

 Ceylon central provinces. By far the most beautiful of all the tree 

 ferns. 



10. Alsophila albo-setacea. (Bedd.) Main rachis purplish, 

 muricated, and (in age) only slightly scaly ; pinnae long petioled ; 

 rachis of pinnae very scaly ; pinnules with the one-two lowest 

 segments free, the rest cut down nearly to the rachis, oblong sub- 

 falcate, slightly crenate ; veinlets all forked from near the base, one 

 branch often (or both rarely) again forked ; costae sparingly clothed 

 beneath with long white setaceous hairs, which are also present in 

 a less degree on the costa and costules above ; costules beneath 

 furnished with deciduous bull ate scales, which often have a hyaline 

 setaceous point at the apex ; sori copious. Bedd. Supplmt. to Ferns, 

 p. 2 (not figured). 



Nicobar Islands (Kurz). 



