Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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fertile pinnae sometimes undulated. Hook. Syn. Fil. 328. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. 167. Cryptosorus, Fee. Coelopteris, A. Br. 



South India, Anamallay Mountains, up the Toracadu River, 

 4,000-5,000 feet elevation, Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills ; 

 Ceylon, common on trees about Newera Elya. 



1 6. Polypodium 



REPANDULUM. (Mett.) 



Caudex stout, erect, 

 with densely matted 

 roots ; stipes tufted, 

 very short, naked or 

 hairy ; fronds 4-6 

 inches long, about 1 

 inch broad, cut down 

 to the rachis through- 

 out, into erect-patent 

 blunt crenated pinnae 

 i-f lines broad ; tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous; 

 rachis naked, or 

 with a few very long 

 hairs; surfaces naked, 

 or with long hairs 

 beneath on the costa; 

 veinlets simple, fall- 

 ing short of the mar- 

 gin ; sori slightly 

 immersed, filling 

 nearly the whole 

 space between the 

 midrib and the margin, and apical on the veinlets. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 328. Polypodium subfalcatum, var. f->, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 189B. 

 Polyp, niinutum {/hiker), Hook. Syn. Fil. 328, as far as the Ceylon 

 plant is eoncerned. C. P. 3073. 



' Ion, higher parts of central provinces, on trunks of trees. 



N°IG7. 

 POLYPODIUM REPANDULUM. 



{Mett. 



