348 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



made a distinct variety of linearis by Mr. Baker in the Syn. FiL, but 

 Mr. Baker now agrees that it should be made a distinct species ; 

 the scales of the rhizome differ from those of " normalis," but the 

 fronds are almost exactly similar to that species, and I had previously 

 confounded it with that (not with linearis.) 



5. Pleopeltis clathrata. {Clarke.) Rhizome short creep- 

 ing, with ovate acute, often hair-pointed scales ; fronds small, stipe 

 often as long as the frond ; sori mixed with sessile irregularly peltate 

 and lacerate clathrate scales. Clarke, F. N. I. p. 559, t. Zz,fig. 1. 



Kashmir, Pir Pinjul, 11,000-12,000 feet elevation. 



(Also in Afghanistan.) 



Mr. Clarke thinks it may be high level form of linearis, but that 

 the scales are peculiar, the texture thinner, the venation conse- 

 quently more conspicuous, and the stipe longer. 



6. Pleopeltis stenophylla. {Bl.) Rhizome creeping, palea- 

 ceous, with glossy subulate pale imbricated ferruginous scales, stipes 

 1-2 inches long, distant ; fronds firm-coriaceous, very rigid, glabrous 

 polished, 4-9 inches long, \—\ inch, or rarely more wide, linear- 

 oblong obtuse, the margin thickened and subreflexed, broadly crenate- 

 sinuate, rarely narrowing upwards, but much and gradually attenuated 

 below on the stipes ; costa prominent beneath, costules none, veins 

 anastomosing so as to form oblong, hexagonal oblique areoles, gene- 

 rally quite empty or with rarely a free included veinlet ; sori rather 

 distant oval, arranged in a series close to the margin, deeply sunk in 

 a cyst, forming elevated pustules on the upper side one to each 

 crenature, the margin of the cavity elevated. Bl. Fil.Jav. p. 135, t. 

 55,/ 1. Hook. Sp. FiL v. 65. Mett. Polyp, p. 99, t. x, f. 31-34 

 venation. Bedd. F. B. I. 234. 



Mr. Clarke states that this comes between " linearis " type and 

 his variety " steniste," but both these ferns have different venation, 

 and neither have the sori sunk in cysts; this has the sori always much 

 nearer the margin than the midrib even in the broader forms. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Philippines.) 



