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Ferns of British India and Ceylon 



glabrous, linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, gradually long atten- 

 uated below on the stipes, entire, the margins subrevolute, venation 

 internal, very indistinct, costules veniform, united by transverse veins 



/, into rather large areoles then 

 into irregular lesser ones, which 

 include free veinlets; sori com- 

 pital oblong, forming a line or 

 series near the margin rather 

 close placed, sunk in cysts, 

 and forming a corresponding 

 elevated line on the upper sur- 

 face, capsules mixed with long- 

 stipitate scales. Metten. Polyp, 

 p. 87. Hook. Sp. Fil. v.6o. 

 Btdd. F. B.I.t.i. P. con- 

 tiguum, Wall. Cat. 285. 



Birma and the Malay 

 Peninsula generally, Mergui, 

 .Singapore, &c. ; North India, 

 Kumaon. 



(Also in the Philippines 

 and Malay Islands.) 



9. Pleopeltis superfi- 

 cialis. (Fl.) Rhizome wide- 

 creeping, thick as a crow-quill, 

 the scales ovale and lanceolate 

 acute,spreading, brown shining, 

 stipes up to six inches long, 

 often curved, sometimes with 

 ovate scales ; fronds lanceo- 

 late-linear (often forked at the 

 apex), subcoriaceous, narrowed 



N?I96. 



PLEOPELTIS LONGIFOLIA. 



(Mett.) 



gradually at both ends, the margins entire, 6-12 inches long, by \-2 

 inches broaH, glabrous ; areoles numerous with free veinlets ; sori 



