Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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Bedd. F. B. I. t. 13. D. conjugata, Hook.' Syn. Fil. 366 {not 

 Lam.) 



Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan, 1,000-4,000 feet elevation, rare, 

 Khasya, 1,000-3000 feet common, Chittagong Hills, 500 feet eleva- 

 tion ; Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Hong Kong and Formosa.) 



2. Drynaria splendeks. {Hook.) Rhizome woody, the scales 

 grey, fibrillose, adpressed ; 

 fronds subsessile, 2-3 feet long, 

 1 foot or more broacl, the lower 

 part barren, cut down nearly 

 or quite to the rachis into 

 erect-patent entire acute lobes 

 4-8 inches long, 1-2 inches 

 broad, the upper fertile pinnae 

 distant, ligulate, 4-8 inches 

 long, \-\ inch broad; main 

 veins distinct, with distinct 

 transverse veinlets and copious 

 intermediate ones and free 

 veinlets ; sori oblong or -sub- 

 quadrangular, filling up the 

 whole of the fertile pinnse ex- 

 cept the midrib. Hook. Sp. 

 Fil. v. 96. Syn. Fil. 367. 

 Bedd. F B. T. t. 316. Dryostachyum, J. Sm. 



Singapore. 



/Also in the Philippines.) 



3. Drynaria propinqua. ( Wall.) Rhizome stout, creeping, 

 the scales lanceolate-linear pubescent ; fronds glabrous dimorphous, 

 the barren ones 4-9 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, cut half or three- 

 quarters down into bluntish or acute lobes, the fertile ones I2-3 feet 

 long, often 1 foot broad, with a distinct stem, the lobes 4-6 inches 

 long, \-'\ inch broad, reaching down nearly or quite to the rachis, 



N°I88. 



DRYNARIA SPLENDENS. 



{Hook. 



