ii4 Perns of British India and Ceylon. 



veins once forked ; sori continuous nearly to the apex of the seg- 

 ments. Hook. Syn. Fil.p. 158. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 43. 



Sikkim ; Khasya ; Cachar; Sylhet up to 3,000 feet elevation; 

 Travancore and Tinnevelly Mountains ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



13. Pteris excelsa. [Gaud.) Fronds ample, 5-6 feet long, 

 submembranaceous, light green, pinnate ; pinna? large, remote, 6 

 inches to a foot long, numerous, ovate-lanceolate caudate sessile, 

 lower ones long-petiolate, lowest pair of pinnae entire, or sometimes 

 bipartite, all deeply pinnatifid nearly to the costa; segments (2-4 

 inches long) from a broad base, linear-lanceolate obtuse serrated 

 subfalcate, lower base decurrent, veins free, forked at or near the 

 middle or 3-4 branched ; very rarely a few veinlets anastomose ; in- 

 volucres continuous from the base almost to the apex, rather broad ; 

 stipes very stout and flexuose ; rachises bright castaneous glossy. 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 183. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 388. Bedd. 

 F.B.I, t. 218. 



Kumaon, Gurwhal ; Dalhousie, 4,000-8,000 feet elevation ; 

 Sikkim, 8,000-9,000 feet ; Nynee Tal. 

 (Also in the Sandwich Islands.) 



14. Pteris patens. {Hook.) Caudex erect ; stipes numerous, 

 stout, scaly at their base, rachis stout, glabrous; fronds ample, erect, 

 strict, membranaceous, pinnate ; lower pinnae bi-tripartite ; pinnse 

 8-16 inches long, strict horizontally patent, numerous approximate, 

 elongate-oblong, acuminate, rarely subcaudate, sessile- or lower ones 

 shortly petiolate, deeply (almost to the rachis) pinnatifid ; segments 

 horizontal, very uniform, linear, scarcely acuminate, serrulate where 

 sterile, the base dilated decurrently-confiuent on both sides, especially 

 at the lower base, sometimes apart ; veins all free, simple or once 

 or twice forked ; sori continuous nearly to the apex. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. ii. 177. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 205. Campteria patens, Baker. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil.p. 165. (The supposed narrow costal arches are 

 only a wing to the rachis.) 



Madras Presidency, Carcoor ghat, Wynaad and Travancore Hills, 



