562 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Indian plant is small and simple at the higher elevations; but I never 

 saw 3-lobed examples in South India or Ceylon, or fronds more than 

 about 4 inches long. 



Var. zoster^eformis. ( Wall. Cat. 280.) Fronds very narrow 

 and ribbon-like, 4-7 inches long, by 1-3 lines broad. Hook. Syn. 

 ■FH 357- Bedd. F. B. I. t. 123. Baker is wrong in saying there are 

 no free veinlets ; it differs from the last in no way except in the nar- 

 rowness of the fronds, and it is certainly only a local variety. 



Tenasserim, beds of rivers at the foot of Mooleyit. 



** Fronds deeply pinnatifid. 



22. Pleopeltis hastata. 

 {Thunb.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 

 paleaceous with dense subulate or 

 hair-pointed falcate ferruginous 

 scales ; stipes 2-5 inches long ; 

 fronds coriaceous, 2-12 inches and 

 more long, deltoid-ovate acuminate, 

 trifid or deeply pinnatifid to within 

 half an inch of the rachis, with 5-1 1 

 segments, which are 3-6 inches 

 long, I to 1 inch wide, very patent 

 from a broad base oblong-lanceolate, 

 very finely acuminated entire or 

 repand or denticulate, thickened 

 at the margin, the lowest ones 

 cuneate-decurrent, terminal segment 

 often the longest and most narrowly 

 acuminated ; venation conspicuous, main veins often prominent 

 beneath, distant, united by transverse veins forming 3-4 series of 

 primary areoles, which are filled up by lesser ones including free 

 veinlets ; sori large not sunk, arranged in a single series nearer the 

 costa than the margin. Thunb. Fl. Jap. 335. Polypodium oxylobum, 

 Wall. Cat. 294. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 175. Pleopeltis trifida, Don. 



N?205. 

 PLEOPELTIS HASTATA. {Thunb. 



