Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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7. Pleopeltis sinuosa. ( Wall.) Rhizome much branched, 

 long-creeping or scandent on trees, sparingly radiculose, half an inch 

 to two inches thick, almost woody when dry, carnose when recent, 

 studded, as it were, with large conical processes upon which the stipes 

 are or have been articulated, and which appear to increase much in 

 size after the fronds have fallen, the whole densely covered (as it 

 were tessellated) with nearly orbicular appressed whitish peltate 

 scales with a dark spot in the centre, stipes 1-2 inches long, glabrous 

 and scaleless ; fronds sub-dimor- 

 phous, subcoriaceous glabrous, 

 sterile ones 3-6-7 inches long, 

 f-i inch broad, subelliptical, ob- 

 long obtuse entire, fertile ones 

 longer, sometimes 1 foot -16 

 inches long, f— f of an inch wide, 

 linear-oblong obtuse, the margins 

 more or less sinuated, the base 

 in both attenuate-decurrent ; ve- 

 nation copiously anastomosing, 

 forming large very irregular areoles 

 filled with lesser ones (formed by 

 more slender veins), and these 

 include branched or simple vein- 

 lets which occasionally again 

 anastomose ; sori remote, large, Jpy 

 oblong, immersed in cysts, which 

 form pustules on the upper side 

 arranged in a single series nearer the margin than the costa. Wall. 

 Cat. n. 2231. Hook. Sp.Hl. v. 61. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 8. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Solomon Islands, Amboyna and New Hebrides.) 



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PLEOPELTIS SINUOSA. 



'Wall) 



8. Pleopeltis loxoifolia. (Metten) Rhizome horizontal, 

 creeping, thick squamose, stipes approximate, 2-3 inches long ; 

 fronds 1-2-3 f eet l° n g> *~ l 1 mcn wide, thick, carnose-coriaceous, 



