288 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Presl. Tent. Pter. p. 78. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 158. Aspid. Wallichii, 

 Hook. Ex. Fl. \.p. 6. t. 5. Bedd. F. B. 1. t. 265. 

 Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 



4. Oleandra. Cumingii. ( J. Sm.) Caudex creeping, scarcely 

 so thick as a writing pen, clothed with close-pressed subulate imbri- 

 cated scales, stipes subterminal and subaggregated 2-7 inches long, 

 slightly downy, articulated within ^-3 inches from the base ; fronds 

 i-ii foot long, firm membranaceous, elongate lanceolate acuminate, 

 very much attenuated and gradually decurrent at the base, pubescent- 

 villous on the costa and veins, sori rather large, forming a single and 

 scarcely interrupted line very near to and on each side the costa. 

 J. Sm. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii. 413. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 158. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 135. 



Birma and the Malay Peninsula. The Assam locality is doubted 

 by Mr. Clarke, who thinks the specimen in the Kew Herbarium of 

 Griffith's was collected at Malacca. The Nilgiri locality is an error, 

 the specimen being musaefolia {Kze). 



(Also in the Philippines and Canton.) 



B. Exinvolucrat^e. — Sori without an indusium. Tribes 

 Polypodiese to Acrostichese. 



TRIBE X.— POLYPODIES. 



Sori on the back of the lobes, round or rarely short-oblong. 

 * Desmobryoid series, habit and mode of growth of Aspidiece, 

 the stems continuous with the caudex ; sori generally medial on the 

 veins. 



GENUS LVIL— PHEGOPTERIS. (Fee.) 

 (Fhegos, beech — the beech fern.) 



Sori round, veins forked or pinnate, veinlets free ; fronds from 

 pinnate to decompound. Habit of Lastrea, and only differing from 

 that genus in wanting an indusium. 



