Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



507 



6. Polvpodium sessilifolium. (Hook.) Caudex small, erect 

 or ascending, scaly ; stipes scarcely any ; fronds tufted, membrana- 

 ceous, firm. 3-9 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, linear, scarcely 

 acuminated, obtuse, attenuated at the base ; veins oblique, approxi- 

 mate, forked ; sori oblong, parallel with the costa in lines or series inter 

 mediate between the costa and the margin, medial on the upper 

 veinlet. Hook. Fit. iv. 168. Syn. Fil. p. 322. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 119. 



Penang. 



(Also in the Philippines.) 



** Fronds pinnatifid. 



7. Polvpodium cornigerum. 

 {Baker.) Fronds tufted, subses- 

 sile, erect ligulate, 3-4 inches long, 

 2-2^ lines broad, pinnatifid or 

 subpinnate, lobes 20-30 jugate, 

 diminishing in size from middle of 

 frond both ways, almost triangu- 

 lar, subacute, repand on the upper 

 edge ; texture subcoriaceous, sur- 

 faces glabrous ; veins one to each 

 lobe, forked, falling far short of 

 the margin ; sorus large round, 

 solitary at fork close to main rachis, 

 and medial on the vein. Hook. 

 Syn. Fit. 503. Bedd. Fern Sup. 

 t. 381. 



Ceylon, Horton plains, rare, 

 (C. P. 4 °°5-> 



^Mt & fir 



N?I6I 



POLYPOD1UM CUCULLATUM. (Necs. 



8. POLYPODIUM CUCULLA- 

 TUM. (Nees.) Caudex very small, ascending ; stipes densely tufted 

 1-3 lines long, naked ; fronds subcoriaceous or somewhat membra- 

 naceous, 3-5 inches long, 2-3 lines broad, flaccid, linear-lanceolate 

 acuminate, deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid ; the lobes linear- 



