Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 295 



partly refers to Lastrea tenericaulis. Phegopteris pallida {Brack.), 

 Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 266. 



Himalayas, from Kumaon to Bhotan, in tropical valleys up to 

 2.000 feet elevation, common in Chittagong Hills, 500 feet elevation ; 

 South India, Carccor ghat, Malabar and elsewhere along the Western 

 ghats, but not common ; Malay Peninsula. 



One of the handsomest of Indian ferns, and much in cultivation, 

 it may be a Lastrea (if Phegopteris is to be kept distinct from that 

 genus, the propriety of which I doubt), but no one has yet detected 

 an indusium, in any case it is quite distinct from Lastrea tenericaulis. 



(Also in North Australia and Polynesia.) 



9. Phegopteris punctata. (Thunb. under Polypodimn.) 

 Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, villous ; stipes scattered 1-2 feet 

 long and with the lower part of the main rachis more or less viscous- 

 pubescent; fronds 1-4 feet long, tripinnate, pinnae up to about 

 2 feet long, lanceolate to deltoid, secondary pinnae 4-6 inches long, 

 tertiary pinnae sessile on the rachis, which is not winged, blunt at the 

 apex, and pinnated two-thirds down into short rounded crenated 

 lobes, more or less furnished on both sides with scurfy hair-like 

 scales, the margins often somewhat refiexed, as in Hypolepis ; sori 

 copious towards the apex of the veinlets and near the margin. Thunb. 

 Fl. Jap. 337. Phegopteris punctata, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 312. 

 Polypodium rugulosum, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 272. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 

 170. Polyp, rugulosum, Labill. Fl. Nov. Hoi. ii. 92 /. 241. Hypo- 

 lepis hostilis, Presl. (as to the Nilgiri plant.) 



Himalayas, from Chumba to Bhotan and Chittagong, 1,000- 

 5,000 feet elevation ; South India, common on the Western moun- 

 tains at the higher elevation's ; Ceylon, about Newera Elya ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also almost throughout the tropics and south temperate zone, 

 extending to Japan, New Zealand, St. Helena, and Chili ; not from 

 continental Africa.) 



10 Phegopteris subdigitata. (Blime, vnder Polypcdh.m.) 

 Stipes tufted, fnm, continuous with the rachip, furfuracecus, or 



