92 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



East Bengal plains from Assam to Chittagong; Khasya Hills, 

 2,000 feet ; South India (Anamallay Hills) ; Birma. 

 (Also in South China and Luzon.) 



6. Cheilanthes laxa. {Moore.) Stipes densely tufted, chest- 

 nut coloured, shining up to 8 inches long, sparsely clothed towards 

 the base with lanceolate scales ; fronds narrow-lanceolate up to 20 

 inches long by 3 inches broad, bipinnate or tripinnatifid ; rachis naked, 

 or nearly so ; pinna? distant, subsessile, deltoid, lower ones reduced ; 

 pinnules blunt, upper adnate entire, lower free lanceolate, bluntly 

 lobed, texture very thin ; surfaces naked ; dull green, slightly farinose 

 beneath on the young fronds ; involucre narrow. Moore Ind. Fil. 

 p. 245. Cheilanthes Thwaitesii, Mett. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 457. 



Ceylon, Kurunagalla and Kallupahane. 



7. Cheilanthes tenuifolia. (Sw.) Annual, caudex short- 

 creeping, scaly ; stipes elongated, rarely scaly ; frond submembrana- 

 ceous, glabrous, 3-4 inches to a span and more long, ovate acuminate, 

 or more or less deltoid, subtripinnate, ultimate lobes of the primary 

 and secondary divisions the largest, more or less pinnatifid ; pinnules 

 elliptic, oblong or oblong-lanceolate subpinnatifid or crenate, with 

 broad blunt teeth ; involucres mostly elongated, more or less con- 

 fluent, more or less crenated or denticulate, sometimes transversely 

 wrinkled ; stipes and rachis purple-black, main rachis winged above, 

 secondary and tertiary rachises all with a narrow wing. Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. ii.p. 82, t. 87c Syn. Fil. p. 138. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 188. 



Madras Presidency, common in the plains and on low hills up 

 to 4,000 feet : Bengal, plains in Assam, Chittagong, Dacca, Chota 

 Nagpore ; Khasya, up to 3,500 feet ; Sikkim ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in China, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Uruguay, 

 and the Malay Islands.) 



8. Cheilanthes farinosa. {Kaulf.) Roots tufted; stipes 

 more or less elongated, ebeneous-glossy, deciduously scaly ; fronds 

 subcoriaceous, from a span to a foot long, deltoidly lanceolate, or 

 lanceolate glabrous, white and powdery beneath, pmnate, the apex 



