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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



oblong -|-f line broad, those of the upper half fertile, broader and with 

 the edges upcurved so as to clasp the large solitary sorus ; costa and 

 sometimes the frond deciduously pilose. Hook. Syn. Fil. 324. Ca- 

 lymmodon cucullatus (Brest.), Bedd. F. S. I. t. 233. 



Ceylon, on rocks and trees, central and southern provinces, 

 3,000-5,000 feet elevation. 



9. Polvpodium khasyantjm. (Hook.) Stipes tufted, very short, 



fringed with soft hairs ; 

 fronds up to about 14 

 inches long, by i| inch 

 broad, flaccid, cut down 

 nearly to the rachis into 

 linear-oblong entire or 

 slightly undulated blunt 

 lobes 2-3 lines broad, 

 texture thick subcoria- 

 ceous ; rachis and both 

 sides sparingly hairy ; 

 veinlets simple ; sori 

 apical on the veinlets, 

 sunk in an oval cavity 

 (having an elevation 

 on the upper side of 

 the frond) in rows of 

 4-6 on each side of the 

 B. I. t. 173. 





N°I62. 



POLYPODIUM TRICHOMANOIDES 



(Sw.) 

 midrib. Hook. Syn. Fil. 325. Bedd. F. 



Khasya 3,000-4,000 feet, near Cherra ; Assam, from Cherra to 

 Jowye and Jarain in Jaintea, 3,000-4,000 feet elevation, not plentiful 

 anywhere. 



10. Polypodium TRICHOMANOIDES. (Sw.) Caudex short, erect, 

 paleaceous above, densely rooting with wiry fibres ; stipes short, ^-1 

 inch long, densely tufted, patent-villous with long fibrous hairs, 

 fronds 3-4 inches to a span long, 2-4 lines wide, rigid-membranaceous, 



