n6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



inner obsolete. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 163. Linn. Sp. pi. 1533. Bedd. 

 F. S. I.t. 42. 



Throughout India, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula on the 

 mountains, 2,000-8,000 feet elevation. 



(Also throughout the whole world, except the Arctic zones and 

 temperate South America.) 



Var. /3 esculenta. Ultimate segments distant, linear and elon- 

 gated. Moulmein and the Malay Peninsula southwards. 



GENUS XXIX.— CAMPTERIA. (Presl.) 

 (Kamptos, arched ; the lowest veins meeting and forming an arch.) 



As in Pteris, but the lowest veinlets from the base of the vein 

 or costule of each segment united with the veinlet from the next 

 costule, and forming long arches along the costa of the pinnae ; upper 

 veinlets free. 



1. Campteria biaurita. (Linn, under Pteris.) Quite similar 

 to Pteris quadriaurita, except that the costules of the segments are 

 connected by a long arching veinlet ; the pinnae are generally less 

 deeply divided, and the plant is generally larger and coarser, but 

 these two latter differences cannot be relied on. Linn. Sp. PI. 1534, 

 under Pteris. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 164. Bedd. F. S. L t. 44.. 



Western parts of Madras Presidency up to 6,000 feet; not 

 common. Pretty general throughout Northern India from the plains 

 up to 6,000 feet. Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Malay Islands, China, tropical Africa, and Australia.) 



2. Campteria Kleiniana. (Presl.) 4-6 feet high; fronds very 

 large, sub-membranaceous, pedately ovate, pinnate; pinnae sub-sessile 

 lanceolate witli a long acumination; lowest pair with two large pinnae 

 descending from the lower margin of the costa; all the pinnae deeply 

 pinnatifid (leaving a broad margin on each side of the , costa) ; 

 segments falcate oblong, sterile ones broadly crenated, and fertile ones 



