Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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1. Phegopteris Scottii. {Bedd.) Caudex suberect, stout 

 tufted, clothed with brownish-black subulate scales as is the base of 

 the stipe; fronds pinnate, oblong, with the stipe 10-12 inches long, 

 by about 3 inches broad, rachis furnished with hair-like scales ; 

 pinnae alternate 6-7 approximated pairs, with a terminal one, lower 

 pair not much decreased in size, all short oblong or ovate obtuse 

 from a square unequal base about ii inches long, by a little less 

 than 1 inch broad, and furnished with falcate acute serratures, gla- 

 brous on both sides, but with a few weak setae or scales on the costa 

 and veins, especially beneath ; veins 

 in pinnate groups, the lower veinlet 

 or the two lower not reaching more 

 than half-way to the margin, upper 

 ones terminating in a dot within 

 the margin; sori medial on the lower 

 2-3 veinlets. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 345. 



Near Darjeeling, Valley of the 

 Rungbee, 2,000 feet elevation (per- 

 haps an abnormal form of Lastrea 

 cuspidata or hirtipes). 



N°l4-8. 



PHEGOPTERIS SCOTTII. 



(Bedd.) 



2. Phegopteris erubescens. 

 ( Wall, under Poly podium.) Stipes 

 tufted 1-2 feet and more long, stout, 

 as well as the rachis and costa more or less purplish-tawny, fronds in 

 general ample but varying from 1 to 4 feet in length and from 6 

 inches to more than 2 feet in breadth, firm, sub-coriaceous, broad- 

 ovate acuminate, pinnate, pinnae 3-16 inches long, \-i\ inch wide, 

 approximate, sessile, elongate-oblong, the sides parallel for a long 

 way and then gradually acuminated to a serrated apex, deeply nearly 

 to the costa pinnatifid, segments oblong, subfalcate, rather acute, 

 entire or obscurely serrated, glabrous above, beneath sparingly fur- 

 nished with longish white needle-like hairs on the rachis and costas 

 and sometimes on the veins ; veins approximate, simple free, two 

 lowermost opposite pair meeting but scarcely uniting at the sinus) 



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