i2 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



vary from quite or nearly quite glabrous to as pubescent as those 

 from Sikkim, and the Penang specimens seem quite identical. 



2. Alsophila glauca. (J. Sm.) A lofty tree fern ; more or 

 less prickly; fronds subcoriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; pinnae 

 2-3 feet long, pinnules 4-5 inches long, | to 1 inch broad, deeply,nearly 

 to the costa pinnatifid ; segments linear-oblong subfalcate, when 

 fertile often contracted, entire or distantly crenulate ; veins forked, 

 and often three-branched ; receptacle naked or hairy. J. Sm. in 

 Hook. Jour. Bot. iii. 419. Bedd. F. B. J. t. 86 (as A. Brunoniana). 

 Alsophila contaminans, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 41. Chnoophora glauca, 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav. 443. 



Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam, Khasya, Cachar, Sylhet, Chittagong, 

 Burmah and Malay Peninsula, up to 4,000 feet. 

 (Also in the Malay Islands.) 



3. Alsophila ornata. {J. Scott.) A lofty tree fern; stipes 

 paleaceous at the base, slightly muricated, and, as well as the main 

 rachises, glossy purplish-brown; fronds herbaceous-membranaceous; 

 primary pinnae oblong- lanceolate, rather abruptly contracted into a 

 short, deeply pinnatifid apex; pinnules nearly all petiolate lanceolate, 

 oblong acuminate, deeply, nearly to the costa pinnatifid ; segments 

 ovate in the sterile, narrow oblong in the fertile, slightly falcate, 

 serrated; costa of the pinnules somewhat hairy above and scaly 

 below ; veinlets forked or a few three-branched. J. Scott, in Trans. 

 Lin. Soc :, xxx. 36, t. 16 a. Bedd, F. B. I. t. 342 



Sikkim, on the banks of the Rungbee, below the Government 

 Cinchona plantation, at 2,500 feet elevation, called Dang pashin by 

 the Lepchas. 



4. Alsophila Andersoni. (J. Scott.) A tall tree fern; stipes 

 muricated and rough, clothed more or less with lanceolate subulate 

 deciduous scales ; rachises tawny villous below, somewhat scabrous 

 above ; fronds ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous-membranaceous, pilose ; 

 primary p'nnae oblong-lanceolate acuminate ; pinnules pinnatifid 

 nearly to the rachis with an attenuated serrated apex ; segments 

 broad-oblong, slightly falcate, sharply serrated ; veinlets simple or 



