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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



17. Polypodium subfalcatum. {Bl.) Rhizome erect ; stipes 

 densely tufted, clothed with soft spreading hairs; fronds 2-10 inches 

 long, by \-i inch broad pinnate, i.e. cut down to the rachis into close 

 spreading pinna? ; pinna? hairy on both sides, soft in texture, rather 

 sharply toothed sometimes one-third or half-down, decurrent at the 

 base, the lower ones gradually reduced ; veinlets simple, hot reaching 

 the margin ; sori apical on the veinlets one to each tooth or lobe 

 of the pinnge. Bl. Fil. Jav. 186, /. 87. A.B. Hook. Syn. Fil. 328. 



Polyp, parvulum, Bedd. 

 F. S. 1. 1. 166, not Bory. 

 P. subfalcatum, Bedd. 

 F.B.I. i%9,fig. A. {not 

 fig. B.) P. parvulum, 

 Thw. En. PL Zey. p. 

 394 in part, C. P. 1290, 

 not^oj^- It differs from 

 the last in being soft in 

 texture instead of coria- 

 ceous, in being much 

 more hairy (repandulum 

 being generally quite 

 glabrous), in being ser- 

 rate instead of crenulate, 

 and in the sori not 

 being immersed. Mr. 

 Thwaites included them 

 both under his parvu- 



POLYPODIUM SUBFALCATUM. 



{Bl.) 



lum, and Mr. Baker has the former both under repandulum and 

 minutum in the Synopsis Filicnm. 



South India, Nilgiris Lamb's Rock near Conoor, Anamallays 

 banks of Toracadu river. 4,5000 feet ; Ceylon, central provinces ; 

 North India, Himalayas from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 5,000-9,000 feet 

 elevation ; Khasya. Mr. Clarke says that some of the Khasya 

 specimens are as small as P. trichomanoides, but that species has 

 only one sorus to each pinna, whilst this has the pinna polysorus, or 



