366 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



greater part or even the whole of its length ; venation distinct, main 

 veins slender, united by transverse veins, forming 3-4 series of areoles, 

 including free divaricating veinlets ; sori very small, compital, gene- 

 rally two on each transverse veinlet, but appearing to be irregularly 

 scattered. Bl. Fil.Jav.p. 166, t. 74. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 78. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 214. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Philippines and Java.) 



27. Pleopeltis phymatodes. (Z.) Rhizome very wide-creep- 

 ing, woody, the scales dark brown fibrillose ; stipes 3-12 inches long, 

 firm, erect, glossy ; fronds varying from simple oblong lanceolate 

 6 inches long, to deeply pinnatifid and 3 feet long, lobes numerous 

 entire, acuminate, lanceolate oblong, 4-8 inches long by 1-1-3- inch 

 broad, texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous ; no distinct main veins, 

 areoles fine with copious free veinlets ; sori large, more or less 

 immersed, 1-2 serial or scattered. Linn. Mant. p. 360. Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. 364. Bedd. F. S. I. 173. Polyp, alternifoliuin, Wall. 

 Cat. 289, type sheet. 



Ceylon ; Malabar and Travancore, cultivated only (?) ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also- throughout the tropics of the old world, the continent of 

 India excepted.) 



28. Pleopeltis longissima. (Bl.) Rhizome wide-creeping: 

 the scales ovate adpressed ; stipes 3-4 feet long, glossy straw-coloured ; 

 fronds 1-4 feet long, 6-12 inches broad, cut down very nearly to the 

 rachis (often leaving only the narrowest sign of a wing) into 3-20 

 erect-patent acuminate linear subentire segments or pinnae, which are 

 i-f inch broad, texture papery, both sides glabrous ; primary veins 

 not very distinct, areoles numerous, with free included simple or 

 forked veinlets, with slightly clavate apices ; sori in close single rows 

 near the midrib, deeply sunk and forming papillae on the upper 

 surface. Bl. En. PL Jav. Fil. 127. Hook. Syn. Fil. 366. Bedd. F 

 Sup. 388. Wall. Cat. 289, $rd sheet (alternifolium, var. poly- 

 phyllum). 



