88 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



finely toothed, lower ones slightly stalked ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 sori roundish, numerous, contiguous round the upper and outer edge. 

 Hook. Syn. Flip. 126. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 3. 



Common in the Western Hills of the Madras Presidency, 3,000- 

 5,000 feet ; Ceylon up to 4,000 feet. 



(Also in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Africa and its Eastern 

 Islands.) 



9. Adiantum flabellulatum. (Z.) Scales on the rhizome 

 long, linear, lax, chestnut coloured ; fronds flabellate, bipartite- 

 pedately divided, tripinnate ■ secondary pinnae lanceolate-acuminated ; 

 pinnules glabrous, subcoriaceous-chartaceous, obliquely cuneate or 

 semi-orbicular-cuneate, superior base truncate, superior margin 2-4 

 lobed and serrate-dentate in the sterile one ; lobes soriferous ; involu- 

 cres large, the breadth of the lobe, oblong, straight, rarely a little 

 curved, hard coriaceous ; stipes elongated ebeneous-scabrous below ; 

 the rest, as well as the slender rachis, glossy and glabrous. Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. ii. 30. Linn. Sp. Fil. p. 1558. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 126. Bcdd. 

 F. S. I. t. 218. 



Nepal, Assam, Khasya, Sylhet ; Ceylon, in the Ouvah district ; 

 he Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the M day Islands, South China and Japan. ) 



GENUS XXIV.— CHEILANTHES. {Swartz.) 



(Cheilos, lip or margin; anthos, flower; the fructification on the margin). 



Sori terminal, or nearly so, on the veins, at first small subglobose, 

 afterwards more or less confluent ; indusium formed of the changed 

 reflexed margin, roundish and distinct, or more or less confluent, but 

 not quite continuous ; fronds subcoriaceous in texture, mostly under 

 12 inches, often under 6 inches long, 3-4-pinnatifid ; veins free. 



1. Cheilanthes fragrans. (Swartz.) Stipes csespitose, wiry, 

 r-3 inches long, densely clothed with reddish-brown linear scales ; 

 fronds 2-3 inches Jong, about 1 in^h broad, ovate-acuminate, bi- or 

 tripinnatifid ; pinnae opposite, -|-f inch long, i— § inch broad, deltoid, 

 cut down to the rachis below into several sinuate-pinnatifid linear- 



