204 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



i 2-1 8 inches long, 2-4 1 inch broad, pinnate, not or only slightly 

 attenuated at the base; pinnae numerous, subsessile, oblong or 

 narrowly oblong, auricular falcate, coriaceous, entire, or pinnatifid 

 with the auricle sometimes quite free, lower veinlets in groups of 

 threes ; sori in two rows one on each side of the midrib, very 

 variable in size ; indusium often quite absent. Linn. Sp. PL 1548. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 251. 



Throughout India and Ceylon. 



(Also in Formosa.) 



Type. Pinnae submembranaceous, lanceolate falcate, 2-2^ 

 inches long, serrate ; upper base square, parallel with rachis and often 

 auricled, lower base much cut away ; involucre very fugacious or gene- 

 rally altogether absent. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. n, /. 218. Bedd. F. S. I. 

 t. 120. Polypodium harpophyllum (Zenker), Hook. Syn. Fil. 511. 



Nilgiris, Pulneys and other Western hills ; Madras Presidency, 

 at the higher elevations. 



Var. (3 marginatum. ( Wall.) Pinnae very coriaceous, 

 shining, scaly below, ovate-oblong, closely spinulose, often somewhat 

 lobed ; indusium conspicuous, sometimes very large. Wall. Cat. 



366. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 3. Bedd. Sup. Ferns, t. 363. Clarke, 

 F.N. I. 507. 



North India; Kunawur to Bhotan, 7,000-10,000 feet elevation. 



Var. y ccespitosum. ( Wall.) Pinnae short, ovate-oblong, 

 margin scarcely spinulose or serrate, sometimes entire ; texture 

 scarcely coriaceous ; indusium conspicuous, ciliate. J Vail. Cat. 



367. P. ccespitosum, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 33. Aspid. obliquum, Don. 

 Prod. Fl. Nep. 3. Clarke, I. c. 507. 



Khasya, 3,000-4,500 feefc elevation. Himalayas, Bhotan to 

 Kunawur, 4,000-8,000 feet. 



Var. I lentum. (Don.) Pinnae pinnatifid, serrate, usually 

 spinulose, the auricle often nearly free. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 4. 

 Var. sub-bipinnata (Hook.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 136. 



Throughout the Himalayas and Khasya, altitude 1,500-8,000 

 feet, very common. 



