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creeping, clothed with broad grey scales ; stipe 1 inch or more long, 

 clothed with soft spreading hairs; fronds 8-12 inches long, -£— § inch 

 broad, acuminate, the base narrowed very gradually, the margins 

 slightly undulated ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides naked ; veins 

 forked oblique, rarely simple ; sori round, at the apex of the upper 

 veinlet, or at the apex of the vein when simple, forming a single row 

 on each side of the costa. Hook. Syn. Fil. 321. Bedd. F S.I. t. 237. 

 Ceylon, Newera Elya, on rocks and trees. 



4. Polypodium Wallii. (Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, scaly, fur- 

 nished with numerous thick black wiry roots ; stipes 3-6 lines long, 

 scaly and hairy; fronds linear-lanceolate with a blunt apex 3 inches 

 long by i inch broad, thick, coriaceous, the veins quite hidden, more 

 or less clothed on both sides and on the margins with delicate black 

 hairs ; veins thick, forked (or simple towards the apex of the frond) ; 

 sori large, round, terminal on the superior veinlet and forming 

 a regular row on each side about midway between the costa and 

 the margin. Bedd. Fei'n Sup. t. 380. Polypodium parasiticum, var. 

 pilosiusculum, Thw. MS. C. P. 3921. 



Ceylon, Adam's Peak ; allied to parasiticum, but much larger 

 and of much thicker texture. 



5. Polypodium hirtellum. (Bl.) Caudex small ascending, 

 scaly above ; stipes tufted |-i| inch long, slender, filiform, villous, 

 with spreading reddish-brown hairs, fronds firm-membranaceous, 

 linear-oblong to lanceolate, 1-4 or more inches long, |— ^ of an inch 

 broad, quite entire at the margin, attenuated at the base, rather 

 densely villous and ciliated with similar hairs to those of the stipes; 

 veins spreading, simple or often forked near the base ; sori in a single 

 regular series close to the costa ; veins when simple soriferous near 

 their base, when forked, soriferous at the apex of the short fork. 

 Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 123. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 166. Polypodium hir- 

 tum, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 170, (not Mctt.). Bedd. F. B. I. 2T2. P. 

 lasiosorum (Hook.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 17 2. 



Ceylon. 



(Also in Java and Luzon.) 



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