37o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



inches apart, not quite opposite, articulated with the rachis, i-i| inch 

 broad, the apex caudate ; the margin thickened and wavy, rarely 

 lobed, sessile from a rounded base, or attenuated and petioled, tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous ; main veins distinct to the 

 margin; areoles copious, hidden, including free veinlets ; sori large, 

 one between each main vein, forming a single row, much nearer the 

 midrib than the margin (rarely in two rows). Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 3. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 368. P. capitellata, Wall. Cat. 306. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 12. 



Var. tenuicauda. {Hook.) Pinnae gradually narrowed and 

 acute at the base and petiolate, quite runs into the type and cannot 

 be considered a variety. P. leiorhizon, Wall. Cat. 303, 3rd sheet.. 



Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-9,000 feet elevation, 

 very common, Khasya, 2,000-5,000 feet. 



33. Pleopeltis Lehmanni. (Mett.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 

 with ovate or orbicular glabrous scales, each ending in a very long 

 acumination ; stipes 8 inches or more long, glabrous as well as 

 the rachis and frond ; fronds 13-2 feet long, submembranaceous 

 pinnate ; pinna? opposite or subopposite, sessile, articulated at the base 

 (terminal one long petioled), linear oblong entire, with a caudate 

 acumination 4-6 inches long, about f inch broad, superior base 

 obliquely excised, inferior base amplexicaule, the margin entire or 

 slightly repand ; main veins evident not extending quite to the 

 margin, connected by the transverse veins which form about 4 series 

 of areoles in which are free simple or forked veinlets with clavate 

 apices ; sori irregular, generally 4-6 in two rows between the main 

 veins. Mett. Poly. p. 229. Bedd. F.B. I. t. 260. Hook. Syn. FiL 

 p. 369. 



Sikkim, 4,000-8,000 feet elevation ; Birma. 



(Pleopeltis moulmeinensis, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 205, drawn from a 

 single specimen in Mr. Parish's possession, is probably this, imper- 

 fectly seeding ; it does not agree in habit with juglandifolia.) 



34, Pleopeltis himalayensis. {Hook.) Rhizome glaucous 



