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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



3. Pleopeltis linearis. {Thunb.) Rhizome wide-creeping, 

 woody, the scales lanceolate dull-brown, never with hairs, stipes from 

 a few lines to 2 inches long, rarely with any scales ; fronds 6-12 inches 

 long, rarely more, \-\ inch broad, entire, narrowed gradually at both 

 ends, texture coriaceous, both sides naked or nearly so ; areoles 



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PLEOPELTIS B.OSTRATA. 



irregular with forked free veinlets ; sori superficial or scarcely im- 

 mersed, never sunk in a cyst, large prominent, forming a single row 

 half-way between the costa and margin, when young covered with 

 copious thin peltate scales. Thunb. Fl.Jap. 335. Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 354. Polyp, loriforme, Wall. Cat. 271, 2nd sheet {typical) P. 

 Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 2222, acutissimum, 4727, gladiatum, 279. 



