Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 89 



oblong lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis polished but slightly 

 scaly, both surfaces green and naked ; sori small, copious ; involucre 

 light brown, membranaceous, toothed. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 134; Sp. 

 Fil. ii. 81. Polypodium fragrans (Linn.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 338. 



Murree, 4,000-5,000 feet; Mountains of Kashmir; Kishtwar, 

 3,500-5,000 feet. 



(Also in Cabul, and all round the Mediterranean, Canaries, 

 Madeira.) 



2. Cheilanthes Szovitzii. (Fisch and Meyer.) Stipes densely 

 tufted, erect, wiry, polished, brown, thinly coated, as is the rachis, 

 with spreading woolly hairs and linear scales ; fronds 3-6 inches long, 

 i-ii inch broad, ovate -lanceolate, bipinnate to tripinnate; pinnae in 

 opposite pairs, the lower ones deltoid; pinnules linear-oblong, con- 

 tiguous, cut down to the rachis below into small round bead-like 

 segments, \ inch in diameter, subcoriaceous, above green slightly 

 tomentose, below covered with white woolly hairs, which arise from 

 the sori, the margins much incurved ; sori copious, marginal. Fisch 

 and Meyer in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1838,/. 241. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 139. 

 Bedd. F.B. I. t. 145. 



Kashmir and Baltistone, 5,000-7,000 feet, common ; Kulu. 

 (A\so in Cabul, Asia Minor, Persia, and South Europe.) 



3. Cheilanthes mysorensis. (Wallich.) Roots densely 

 caespitose, the fibres very woolly, stipes slightly scaly below, short, 

 1-2 inches, and as well as the main rachises, deep glossy-ebeneous, 

 rigid ; fronds a span or more long, in outline narrow oblong, acute, 

 tapering below by the diminishing of the pinnae, glabrous, membrana- 

 ceous but firm, bipinnate ; lower pinnae very small, all of them oblong- 

 ovate, sessile, frequently opposite pinnate below, the upper half pin- 

 natifid ; pinnules or segments linear-oblong, plane (much incurved if 

 dried without pressure), toothed or lobate-pinnatifid, each tooth or 

 lob2 bearing one ortwosubconflaent, small, whitish, suborbicular sori. 

 /'/ '•. Sp. Fil. ii. p. 91 ; Syn. Fil. p. 135. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 190. 



South India, common in dry, rocky places in the plains and 

 lower slopes of the hills; Ceylon, at low elevations. 

 (Also in China and Japan.) 



