Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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South India, on the Tinnevelly Mountains, near Courtallum ; 

 Ceylon, Singhe Rajah Forest; Singapore and Mount Ophir; North- 

 west India, near Mandal (Edgeworth). 



(Also in Borneo, Luzon, Tahiti.) 



14. Polypodium fcjscatum. {JBL) Stipes tufted, 1-3 inches 

 long, densely clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fronds 3-6 inches 

 long, |-i inch broad, cut down nearly to the rachis throughout into 

 close entire obtuse pinnae, 

 }, line broad, the lower 

 ones shorter and broader, 

 texture subcoriaceous, 

 rachis and both sides 

 thinly clothed with soft 

 hairs; veins obscure, sim- 

 ple ; sori forming a close 

 row on each side the 

 midrib, at last filling 

 nearly the whole surface. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. />. 331. 



Bedd. F B. I. t. 32 



Ceylon. 

 (Also in Java.) 



4- 



* * * Fronds pinnate. 



15. Polypodium 

 obliquatum. {JBL) Stipes 



tufted, 1 inch or more N?I65.' 



long, rigid, naked or vil- polypodium decorum. (Brack.) 



Lous ; fronds up to 15 inches long and 2 inches broad, pinnate, being 

 cut down to the rachis throughout into entire close subhorizontal 

 linear pinnae, i-i\ lines broad, dilated at the base, the lower ones 

 dwarfed, texture subcoriaceous ; rachis naked or hispid, both sides 

 naked ; veinlets simple, not reaching the margin ; sori sunk in a 

 cavity 4 6 on each side, apical on the veinlets ; the edges of the 



