316 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



one to each lobe of the pinna, besides the sori are differently 

 situated. 



* * * * Fronds compound. 



1 8. Polypodium dare^eforme. (Hook.) Rhizome stout, 

 creeping, clothed densely with filiform golden scales ; stipes 6-9 

 inches long, articulated on the rhizome, naked, glossy ; fronds 

 12-18 inches long, 8-12 inches broad, sub-deltoid, 3-4 -pinnate ; 

 Darea-like ; pinna? 1-2 inches broad, lanceolate deltoid ; secondary 

 pinnae f inch long, tertiary pinna? small, forked or pinnate ; the 

 ulumate segments narrow, almost filiform bluntish, texture herba- 

 ceous, rachis glossy, both sides quite naked; veins one to each 

 ultimate segment, not reaching the margin, and thickened at the 

 apex, and bearing the sorus low down ; sori extending beyond the 

 margins of the segments ; indusium none. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 256, 

 Syn. Fil. 339. Acrophorus Hookeri, Bedd. F. B. I. 95 {not Moore, 

 tvhich is Leucostegia Hookeri.) 



Himalayas and Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation. This 

 cannot belong to Phegopteris as the stipes are articulated with the 

 rhizome ; it is very probably a Leucostegia, but no indusium is to be 

 detected in the many examples that I have examined ; it has long 

 been confused with Leucostegia Hookeri, which it closely resembles 

 in habit. 



GENUS LXL— GONIOPHLEBIUM. (Brest.) 

 (Gonia, angle ; p/ieoes, veins — the veins forming angles.) 



Veins forming ample regular areoles, each with a simple or rarely 

 forked free included veinlet, on which the sorus is terminal, often in 

 the costal a r eoles only, but sometimes also in the second or even the 

 third row, marginal veinlets free ; sori non-indusiate, globose or 

 rarely oblong; fronds pinnatifid or pinnate (simple in some species 

 not Indian); rhizome wide-creeping, the stipe articulate 01 the 

 rhizome; pinnae articulate with the rachis. 



