Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 351 



copious scattered irregularly, compnal, large or small. Polypodium 

 superficiale, Bl. E?i. PJ.Jav. Fil. 123. Hook. Syn. Fil.^SS- Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 75. 



Khasya Hills, 4,000-6,000 feet elevation, extending to the 

 Naga country to the east, and to Bhotan and Mishmee ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also in South China.) 



10. Pleopeltis lanceolata. (Z.) Rhizome long-creeping, 

 paleaceous, with lanceolate ferruginous scales, stipes remote, 1-2-4 

 inches long; fronds coriaceous, 3-9 inches long, \-\ inch wide, 

 lanceolate, more or less acuminate, long and gradually attenuated at 

 the base, copiously furnished with orbicular ovate, small appressed 

 peltate scales dark in the centre, pale in the circumference and den- 

 ticulate ; veins immersed indistinct, the primary veins form large 

 obliquely elongated areoles, which include very irregular and different 

 sized areoles, and a few free veinlets which are rarely forked ; sori 

 generally very large and often exceedingly prominent, pulvinate glo- 

 bose or oval, stalked scales mixed with the spore cases. Polyp, lan- 

 ceolatum, Linn. Sp. PL 1082. P. lepidota, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 56. 

 Willd. in Schlecht Adimbr., p. 17. Bedd. F. S. I. t. i8t . P. 

 angustata var- depauperata, Clarke, F. N. I. p. 559. 



Nilgiris and higher mountains on the West side of the Madras 

 Presidency ; Assam (one poor specimen in Kew Herbarium) ; Cey- 

 lon, Ambawalla estate. 



(Also in Tropical America and the West Indies, South Africa 

 and its islands ; St. Helena ; Sandwich Islands.) 



n. Pleopeltis angustata. (Swi) Rhizome long-creeping, 

 branched, paleaceous with falcate subulate-setaceous scales, stipes 

 remote, 1^-4 inches long; fronds 5 inches to a span or more long 

 }-2 inches wide, tapering below into a petiole, glabrous above, clothed 

 beneath with cottony tomentum which is deciduous, coriaceous, 

 oblong-lanceolate ; venation sunk obscure, costular areoles with 

 free or branched and more or less connected veinlets ; sori very 

 large, subglobose oval, partially sunk in the frond, very convex, 



