292 "Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



stipe with large lanceolate yellowish-brown scales near the base 

 fronds 6-9 inches long by 4-6 inches broad, subdeltoid, lowest pinnae 

 as long or nearly as long as any above them, main rachis beneath, 

 with small ovate scales, pinnae -§-f inch broad, cut down nearly to 

 the main rachis, lobes oblong blunt or scarcely acute, entire or slightly 

 crenate, ii-2 lines broad, more or less pilose on both sides ; veinlets 

 6-8 on a side, the lower ones forked ; sori nearer the margin than 

 the midrib. Mett. Fil. Hort. Lips. 83. Polypodium Phegopteris, 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 308. Clarke, F. N. I. 544. 



Cashmir, above Sonamurg, ir,ooo feet elevation. 



(Also in North Europe, Asia, and America; Caucasus and 

 Japan.) 



5. Phegopteris distans. (Don. under Polypodium.) Stipe 

 tufted, squamose near the base up to 2 feet long, yellowish or dark 

 purplish-brown, glossy ; fronds up to about 3 feet long, the lower pinnae 

 generally reduced and distant, sometimes not at all reduced, pinnae 

 6-8 inches long, \\ inch broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis 

 into deeply pinnatifid pinnules f- inch broad, with blunt or acute 

 toothed or subentire lobes, the base dilated, texture herbaceous, rachis 

 villous or rarely glabrous, undersurface a little hairy; veinlets pinnate 

 in the ultimate lobes, pellucid ; sori generally on the lower veinlets 

 below the apex, or rarely apical, the veinlet not being continued beyond 

 the sorus. Polypodium, Don. Prod., PL Nep. 2. Polypodium 

 paludosum (PI.), Pedd. P. S. L t. 168. P. Griffithii, Hook. Sp. Fil. 

 iv. 236. P. longipes, Wall. Cat. 316. P. adnatum, Wall. Cat. 328. 

 P. brunneum, Wall. Cat. 333. This variety "adnata," Clarke, F. N. I. 

 p. 544 (which is Lastrea microstegia, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 119 and Pedd. 

 F. P. I. t. 39) only differs in being a little more compound and 

 generally bipinnate, but it runs into the type. Var. " glabrata " of 

 Clarke only differs in being somewhat more glabrous. Var. " minor " 

 of Clarke is a smaller, less cut form, pinnae only 1-2 inches long, 

 pinnatifid only one-third down, but it runs into the type. 



North India, from Kashmir to Bhotan, 3,000-8,000 feet elevation, 

 very common ; Khasya, 3,000-5,000 ; South India, on the Western 



