254 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Himalayas and Khasya, 2,000-6,000 feet, very common ; South 

 India, abundant on all the Western mountains and on the hills on 

 the East side ; Ceylon ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Islands, China, and Mauritius.) 



Var. ft nitidula. {Wall. Cat. 392.) Stipes and rachis red, 

 lower pinnae less divided, pinnules less cut ; indusium deciduous, 

 Bedd. F. Sup. t. 374. 



Nepal to Bhotan, 9,000-12,000 feet elevation. 



Var. y obtusissima. (Melt.) Base of stipe clothed with 

 light brown broad chaffy s:ales, lower pinnae similar to the others ; 

 frond less cut, the ultimate segments broader, shorter and blunter, 

 oblong to obovate. Bedd. F. Sup. 375. Kuhn. Lin. 36. 



Ceylon, Nepal. 



Var. 8 deltoidea. {Bedd.) Fronds quite deltoid, the upper 

 and lower basal pinnules being much reduced in size. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. I. 248. 



Ceylon. 



Var. e minor. {Thw.) Fronds very small, often only 3 inches, 

 simply pinnate, the pinnae only i inch broad, but in fructification, 

 larger specimens, however, running into the smaller forms of 

 deltoidea. 



Ceylon ; Simla, North Cachar. 



Var. 4 Zeylanica. {Bedd.) In texture and colour like obtu- 

 sissima, but much more compound and the basal pinnules larger 

 than the others, main secondary and tertiary rachises more or 

 less matted with black adpressed flattish scales ; base of stipes a 

 cushion-like mass of long narrow golden scales. L. pulvinulifera, 

 var. ft Zeylanica. Bedd. F. Sup. p. 17. 



Ceylon, Blackpool. 



Var. 77 undulata. {Thw.) Pinnae deflexed, rachis and secon- 

 dary rachis geniculate-fiexuose. A very curious variety only found 

 on the top of the hill over the Hackgalle Government Gardens, 



