6 Ferns of "British India and Ceylon. 



petiolate, sinuate-crenate ; veins three-branched or pinnate, the 

 veinlets occasionally anastomosing amongst themselves, or with the 

 next group ; sori medial on the veinlets ; indusium very persistent. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. /. 87 ; Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 16. 



Penang and Malacca. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



3. Cyathea Hookeri. (Thw.) Small, but with a trunk-like 

 caudex x\ inch thick; stipes short black, muricated at the base and 

 sub-paleaceous ; fronds coriaceo-membranaceous, 2-3 feet long, 4-5 

 inches wide, elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnate pinnatifid at the 

 apex ; pinnae from a broad base, which is more or less auricled, 

 lanceolate acuminate, sessile or sub-sessile, coarsely dentate-pinnatifid, 

 more or less entire towards the apex and base, and the lower ones 

 gradually diminishing in size and obtuse at their apex ; veins pinnate ; 

 sori medial on the veinlets ; indusium soon breaking up and becoming 

 cup-like. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 260. Thw. En. PI. Zy.p. 396. Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. p. 16. 



Ceylon, in the Singhe-Rajah Forest. 



*## Pronds decompoundly pinnate. 



4. Cyathea sptnulosa. {Wall.) A tall tree fern; stipes and 

 main rachis beneath, strongly aculeate, dark purple ; fronds glabrous, 

 tripinnatifid ; main rachis and rachis of pinnules ferruginous above; 

 rachis of pinnules and main vein of segments scaly below, but the 

 latter glabrous above ; segments falcate-oblcng acute, serrulate, the 

 margin more or less recurved ; veinlets once-forked, or more rarely 

 three-branched ; sori copious near the costules or main veins ; in- 

 dusium completely covering the sorus when young, soon breaking 

 irregularly. Bedd. F S. I. t. 57. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 23. 



The Wynad at 3,000 feet elevation, North and South Canara 

 Coorg, Jeypore Hills (Vizag), Nepal, Jaintea Hills. The Wynad 

 specimens are in every way identical with those from Northern 

 India collected by Wallich, and Mr. Clarke is in error in stating 

 that the South Indian plant is a Hemitelea, as on comparing with 

 him the specimens he had examined at Kew I found that they were 

 " Alsophila latebrosa," and that this Cyathea was not represented 



