3io 



Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



forked the superior veinlet only is soriferous ; sori round, slightly 

 immersed. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 188. Baker, in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 508. 



Ceylon, about Dickoya, on 



trees, very sweet scented (C.P. 



3,900). 



13. POLYPODIUM DECORUM. 



{Brack}) Caudex short, rather 

 thick, creeping, densely ferrugi- 

 nous-squamose, stipes approxi- 

 mate, sub-terminal on the caudex, 

 2-4 lines long ; fronds coriaceous, 

 glabrous, 6-12 inches long, \-\ 

 inch broad, narrow-lanceolate, 

 much and almost caudate-acu- 

 minate, the base very gradually 

 attenuated into the short stipe, 

 deeply and nearly to the rachis 

 pinnatifid, segments horizontally 

 patent, narrow-oblong obtuse, 

 quite entire, below gradually be- 

 coming shorter and broader and 

 ^—^7 forming shallow elongated lobed 



^^y^/^v wings at the base ; costa glabrous 

 or pilosulous, costule and veins 

 quite sunk and inconspicuous; 

 sori oblong, 2-8 in a row, on each 

 side of the costule, and apical on 

 the short veins, which do not 

 nearly reach the margin, partially 

 sunk in a hairy cavity (but with 

 [Bed J.) no raised border). Hook. Sj>. 

 Fil. iv. 179. Brack. Fil. Un. St. 



f. 2. Bedd. F B. I. t. 2 38 a. P. serra, Wall. 



N?I64-. 



POLYPODIUM THWAITESII. 



Exp. p. 7, t. 

 Cat. A 313. 



