94 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



elongate-lanceolate tripinnatifid ; pinna? 8-10 pairs, the lower ones 

 distant, if inch long, more than 1 inch broad, deltoid ; pinnules on 

 the lower side the largest, sometimes 1 inch long oblong-lanceolate, 

 cut down to the rachis below into oblong lobes ; texture herbaceous., 

 upper surface naked, lower villose, especially on the costa ; involucre 

 continuous, slightly crenulate, not fimbriate on the margin. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 137 ; Sp. Fil. ii. p. 87, t. 98 B. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 142. 

 Clarke, F. N. I. p. 456. 



Mr. Clarke says that the involucre is that of Pelloea, to which 

 genus this might be referred. 



N. W. Himalayas, Palur Valley, and Kitghur, near Simla. 



10. Cheilanthes albo-marginata. (Clarke.) Rhizome with 

 tufts of hair-pointed scales , stipes up to 10 inches, shorter or 

 longer than the frond ; glabrous, reddish-brown, shining, furnished, 

 particularly below and when young, with lanceolate white-mar- 

 gined scales; fronds deltoid to deltoid-lanceolate, when very young 

 completely covered beneath with lanceolate brown scales, and with 

 yellowish or whitish powder, in age glabrous except the partial 

 rachises and costa, which are scaly ; lowest pair of pinna? half deltoid, 

 and with their lower pinnules much more developed than in the 

 others (as in farinosa) ; involucres lacerate on the margins. Clarke, 

 F. N. I. p. 456, /. 52. Perhaps only a form of farinosa. 



N. W. Himalayas, Kashmir, Basaoli, 5,000 feet; Dalhousie, 

 6,000 feet; Simla, 7,000 feet; Gurwhal, 2,000-9,000 feet. 



11. Cheilasthes rufa. (Don.) Stipes tufted, up to 6 inches 

 long, densely clothed with rusty brown, woolly tomentum; fronds 6-10 

 inches long, bipinnatifid, from deltoid with the lower pinna? much 

 developed (like farinosa) to lanceolate with the lower pinna? dwindling 

 down; whole- frond woolly beneath, with crisped hairs; texture herba- 

 ceous, white powder present below on the young fronds ; involucre 

 ciliated. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 16. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 141. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 144. 



Very near the last species, only tomentose. I have some speci- 

 mens from Gurwhal, I hardly know which to refer to, the tomentum 



