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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Kashmir, 7,000-11,000 feet elevation, and eastwards to Kumaon. 

 (Aiso in Arctic and Alpine Europe, Asia and America.) 



8. Phegopteris ornata. (Wall, under Poly podium}) Caudex 

 erect ; stipe, main and partial rachises with lanceolate-linear scales and 

 muricate or scabrous from their persistent bases, not pilose, viscous or 

 glaucous ; fronds very large up to 15-20 feet long, tripinnate, except 

 that there is a very regular wing to the rachis, pinnae generally 2 feet 

 or more long and about i foot broad, secondary pinna? 1-2 inches broad, 



PHEGOPTERIS DRYOPTERIS. [Linn.) 



N?I52. 



PHEGOPTERIS ORNATA. (Wall. 



theii rachis also scabrous and scaly and furnished with long white 

 needle-like hairs, tertiary pinnules up to \ inch broad, linear-oblong 

 from a sessile square base, resting on the wing of the tertiary rachis, 

 rather distant from each other, acute or blunt at the apex, deeply often 

 nearly to the costa pinnatifid, the costaand often the veins furnished 

 with needle-like hairs, texture thin herbaceous ; veinlets simple or 

 forked; sori medial. Wall. Cat. 327. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 171. 

 Lastrea tenericaulis, Hook. Sp. Fit. iv. t. 269, not the description which 



