Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 93 



pinnatifid, acuminate, pinnae mostly lanceolate pinnatifid, the one or 

 two lowermost pair more or less half deltoid bipinnatifid below; 

 involucres brown, scariose, rounded, sometimes confluent, and then 

 waved or lobed, the margin entire or toothed and jagged. Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. \\.p. 77 ; Syn. Fil. p. 142. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 191 and 192 {bullosa). 



Throughout North India, in the hills up to 5,000 feet; Madras 

 Presidency, in the plains and up to 8,000 feet on the hills ; Ceylon ; 

 Birma. 



(Also in Tropical America, Java, Philippines, East Africa and its 

 Islands, and Arabia.) 



Var. /3 Dalhousi^e. (Hook.) Pinna; (even when young) 

 without hairs, scales or powder underneath ; involucres deeply crenu- 

 late toothed or lacerate on the margin. Clarke, F. N. I. p. 459, ana 

 /. 51. P. Dalhousiae, Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. p. 10; Syn. Fil. p. 137. 



West Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon, 6,000-9,000 feet, 

 Sikkim, Lachen, 10,000 feet. 



Var. y flaccida. Ultimate pinnules very flaccid, and generally 

 broader than in the type, the white powder sparse on young fronds, 

 altogether absent on mature ones; stipes and rachis weak and often 

 wavy. Cheilanthes Dalhousiae, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 192. 



Nilgiris, in woods near Makoorty Peak, 7,000 feet, Anamallays, 

 open grassy places on Ponachy Hill, 6,000 feet. 



Var. chrysophylla. Powder beneath of a bright golden 

 colour ; fronds with quite the outline of typical farinosa, but smaller. 

 Hook. Fil. Fxot. t. 95, fig. 1. Cheil. argentea var. chrysophylla, 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 142. 



Khasya, 5,000 feet; Cheilanthes argentea var. sulphurea, Clarke, 

 F. N. I. p. 458, is only the young undeveloped frond of this. 



9. Cheilanthes subvillosa. (Hook.) Stipes densely tufted, 

 ^ -4 inches long, polished, naked, bright chestnut coloured, rather 

 brittle, clothed with lanceolate acuminate scales below, main rachis 

 glabrous beneath, the partial rachises with crisped woolly salmon- 

 coloured hairs beneath ; fronds 6-12 inches long, 2-3 inches broad, 



