u8 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



crenated at their sterile apices ; basal veins uniting in pairs into an 

 arch below the sinus (one generally proceeding from the costa, the 

 other from the costule), and bearing 3-4 free veinlets; other veinlets 

 forked, terminating in dots within the margin; indusium never reach- 

 ing the base or apex of the segments. Klein. Tent. Pter. 147. /. 5. 

 Pteris geminata, Wall. Cat. 2180. Hook. Syn. Fil. 164. C. 

 Anamallayensis, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 45. 



Western mountains of Madras Presidency 2,000-4,500 feet; 

 rather rare. United by Hooker and by Clarke with biaurita but 

 really quite distinct ; its thin texture and very wavy appearance 

 are very unlike any form of biaurita; its margin is, besides, 

 always crenated, and the veins never reach the margin, which they 

 always do in biaurita. It is one of the most beautiful ferns in the 

 Madras forests, and has been for years in cultivation at Ootacamund. 

 Wight's specimens from Courtallum are named geminata in the Kew 

 Herbarium, and there are no specimens from N. India ; there are 

 specimens from Johanna Island"; also from the Isle of Mayotta, 

 (collected by Lady Barkly), named by Mr. Baker Campteria maxima. 

 Sp. Fil. p. 480. 



3. Campteria Wallichi an a. (Ag.) Fronds ample, glabrous, sub- 

 membranaceous, 3-partite, lateral branches compoundly divided, 

 terminal one elongated, pinnated; pinnse numerous, sessile, 4-6 inches 

 long, linear-lanceolate acuminate, deeply pinnatifid; segments linear- 

 lanceolate obtuse, sterile ones serrulate, all approximate, about \ an 

 inch long ; basal veins monarcuate, the rest free and forked, rarely a 

 solitary areole at the base of the costule ; stipes very long, 5-6 feet ; 

 stout, rich castaneous, and, as well as the paler-coloured rachises, very 

 smooth and glossy. Ag. Sp. Gen. Pter. p. 69. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 206. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 165. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 25 and 217. Var. quadripinnata 

 ( Clarke) is a very compound form with the pinna tripinnate; it is 

 p?vbably an abnormal form or monstrosity which would not be constant. 



Himalayas from Chumba to Bhotan 3,000-8,000 feet, abundant ; 

 Khasya. 



(Also in the Philippines, Java, and Samoa.) 



