Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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linear, attenuated at both extremities, deeply nearly to the costa 

 pinnatifid or almost pinnate (quite so at the very base), lobes hori- 

 zontally patent from a broad base, ovate or oblong entire, sub-concave 

 beneath, sub-deciduously ciliated with long fibrous or blackish 

 patent hairs ; veins solitary in each lobe, simple or forked, each lobe 

 having a single sorus near the base of the veins and the costa. Hook. 

 Sp. Fil. iv. 178 ; Syn. Fil. 326. Bedd. F.B.I.t.z. 



Sikkim, 9,000-12,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in South America, Brazil and Ecuador ; and Cuba.) 



II. POLYPODIUM GLANDULOSUM. (Hook. 



distinct, clinging to the bark of trees by copious 

 rooting fibres, the rest of the plant all over 

 pilose-glandulose, most so beneath ; stipes 

 tufted 1-3 lines long, fronds 2-4 inches long, } 

 inch broad, linear obtuse, scarcely attenuated 

 at either extremity, rather firm-membrana- 

 ceous, sub -succulent, deeply nearly to the 

 rachis pinnatifid ; segments ovate, sub-acute, 

 horizontally patent, decurrent at the base, 

 lowermost ones free, all of them serrate-pinna- 

 tifid, costule, and rather distant few and ob- 

 lique simple veins indistinct; sori 1-6 to each 

 segment globose. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 193. 

 Syn. Fil. 327. Bedd. F S. I. t. 238B. 



Ceylon, in the central provinces, Ram- 

 bodde, and summit of Wattakelia Hill. 



Caudex small, in 



N?I63. 



I'OLYI'ODIUM 

 GLANDULOSUM. (Hook.) 



12. Polypodium Thwaitesil {Bedd.) Caudex creeping, 

 clothed with lanceolate scales ; fronds sessile or subsessile, sub- 

 coriaceous, perfectly glabrous, 2-4 inches long by about 1 inch 

 broad, lanceolate or oblanceolate, deeply almost to the rachis pin- 

 natifid ; lubes 1 -2 lines broad, lanceolate, blunt, rather ascending, 

 more or less repand or sinuate-pinnatifid, the lower reduced 

 gradually to a narrow wing ; veinlets distant, erect-patent, simple or 

 more rarely forked, where simple sorifeious at the apex, where 



