Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



365 



of the sterile frond, 2 feet of the fertile, glossy brown ; fronds firm- 

 coriaceous glossy dimorphous, sterile ones 6-10 inches long, 8 inches 

 to 1 foot wide, hastate, tripartite, simply ovate or pinnatifid with 

 4-6 lateral lobes, lobes ovate-acuminate entire horizontal, terminal 

 one very large, all thickened at the margin ; main veins distinct, 

 but immersed, other veins internal and very indistinct ; areoles with 

 free included simple or forked veinlets ; fertile fronds very long- 

 stipitate, 10 inches to a foot long, nearly as much wide, very broad- 

 ovate deeply pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, below subpinnate, segments 

 5-15, 4-S inches long, very 

 remote, linear and acuminate, 

 decurrent at the base ; sori 

 large, copious, oval, sunk into 

 a very deep cavity which forms 

 a circular elevated truncated 

 tubercle on the opposite side, 

 occupying the space between 

 the costa and the margin in a 

 single series. Bl. Fil.Jav. p. 

 151, /. 65. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 

 77. Bedd. F. B. I. 124. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Malay 

 Islands.) 



N?207. 



I'LEOPELTIS INSIGNIS. (BL 



26. PLEOPELTIS INSIGNIS. 



(Bl.) Rhizome short-creep- 

 ing, paleaceous, with decidu- 

 ous ferruginous scales ; stipes 



1-2 inches or more long (according to the length of the decurrent 

 wing of the frond) ; fronds subtriangular-ovate, membranaceous, 

 glabrous, 4-9 inches long (independent of the decurrent wing), and 

 nearly as much broad, subdeltoid, deeply pinnatifid, with 5-9 lance- 

 olate spreading acuminate segments ; the base of the fronds sulx 11 

 neate and decurrcntly attenuated so that the stipes is winged for the 



