Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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mountains. 5,000-8,000 feet, very abundant ; Ceylon ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



6. Phegopteris rufescens. (Blunie, under Polypodium.) 

 Caudex creeping, furnished with appressed scales and wiry roots, stipe 

 8-16 inches long and together with the main and partial rachises 

 slightly asperous ; fronds 12-18 inches long by 9-12 inches broad, 

 subdeltoid, subcoriaceous, puberulous beneath, with minute yellow 

 hairs, bi-tripinnatifid, i. e. lower pair of pinnse often bipinnatifid, 

 upper ones pinnatifid, pinnules 

 oblong obtuse, spinulose-ser- 

 rate ; veins pinnate, 3-4 on a 

 side, veinlets simple or forked, 

 reaching to the margin ; sori 

 medial on the veinlets. Poly- 

 podium, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 1 94, /. 

 9 1 . Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 2 5 7 . Syn. 

 Fil. 309. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 236. 



Ceylon, central provinces, 

 3,000-5,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in Java, New Cale- 

 donia and Queensland.) N^SO^^- 



7. Phegopteris Dryop- 

 teris. (Li?in. under Poly- 

 podium.) Rhizome creeping ; 

 stipe with lanceolate subulate 

 scales near the base ; fronds 

 3-8 inches long and broad, deltoid, 3-pinnate, thin green, nearly 

 glabrous, often glandulose, lower pinnae largest, pinnules lanceolate, 

 only the lowest free, oblong slightly crenate, texture thin herbaceous, 

 rachis glabrous ; veins pinnate in the lobes, veinlets forked or simple ; 

 sori submarginal a little below the apex of the veinlet. Polypodium 

 Dryopteris, Linn. Sp. PL 1555- Hook. Syn. Fil. 309. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 74. Polypodium Robertianurn, Afilde, Fil. Eur. 99. 



PHEGOPTEBIS RUFESCENS. {RllllllC.) 



