290 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



soriferous always at the very base, so as to form two lines or series (at 

 length confluent) one on each side and close to the costa, not extend- 

 ing to the apex of the segment ; main rachis stout with a broad groove 

 on the upper side (when dry.) Wall. Cat. n. 330. Hook. Sp. Fil. 

 iv. 236. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 213. Hook. Syn. Fil. 306. 



Himalayas, Kashmir to Bhotan, Khasya, 3,000-7,000 feet 

 elevation ; Malay Peninsula. It is very like Lastrea tylodes. 



(Also in Malay Islands.) 



3. Phegopteris auriculata. {Wall, under Polypodium.) 

 Stipes stout, densely villous, with white matted hairs (as is the rachis), 

 furnished below with numerous ovate black shining scales ; fronds 

 ample, firm, membranaceous, 3 feet and more long, 16 inches broad, 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate, generally gradually attenuated below by 

 the dwarfing of the pinna?, pinnated, pinna? numerous, about 8 inches 

 long by 1 inch broad, sessile and furnished at the base on the 

 under side with a curious hooked gland, sometimes nearly quarter 

 inch long, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, segments broad ob- 

 long, very obtuse, entire, subfalcate, costa costules and veins 

 villous, and the segments sparingly hairy on both sides between 

 the veins ; veins pinnate, simple, extending to the margin, lowest 

 pair entering the margin above the sinus, soriferous below the 

 middle, spore cases furnished with a few long weak hairs. Poly- 

 podium auriculatum, Wall. Cat. 314. Hook. Syn. Fil. 306. 

 Bedd. F. B. I. t. 203. 



Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet 

 elevation, common about Darjeeling, Khasya, Myrung wood, 

 5,000 feet elevation. Polypodium appendiculatum, Bedd. F. B. L 

 256, is only a state of this with the pinna? not reduced at 

 the base. 



(Also in Java.) 



4. Phegopteris vulgaris. (Mett.) Rhizome slender creeping j 



