Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



423 



Burin. Fl. Zey. 234. S. sc andens, J. Smith, in Hook. Journ. of 

 Bot. hi. 401. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 201. Lomaria scandens, Willd. 

 Sp. PL 293. 



South India, in the plains on the West Coast and up the 

 mountains to about 3,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon. North India in 

 the plains of Bengal and at low elevations on the hills ; Malay Pen- 

 insula. (Davallia achilleifolia, Wall. Teratophyllum aculeatum, 

 Mett. Ann. Mus. Lug. Bat. 4, 296. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 209, is an 

 abnormal form of this plant, showing clearly a winged partial rachis.) 



(Also in South China ; 

 Queensland ; and Fiji.) 



2. Stenochl/ena sorbi- 

 folia. (Z.) Rhizome thick, 

 woody, often 40 feet long, clasp- 

 ing trees like a cable, sometimes 

 prickly, scales lanceolate-subulate, 

 large; fronds up to 18 inches 

 long, simply pinnate, barren pin- 

 na; 3-8 inches long, about 1 inch 

 broad, bluntly pointed, margin 

 entire or toothed, 3-20 on each 

 side, articulated at the base, 

 texture subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 or nearly so on both sides, rachis 

 often winged, fertile pinna; smaller, 

 much contracted, about \ inch 



broad. Acrostichum sorbifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1526. 

 opsis, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 412. Bedd. F. B. L. t. 192. 



The Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim, Malacca. 



Bedd. F. B. L. t. 210, is an abnormal bipinnate form of this 

 plant in which the rachis of the pinna; is very broadly winged with 

 small pinnules resembling the leaves of Feronia elephantum. Lo- 

 maria limonifolia, Wall. Cat. 35, is the same form. 



(Also in Tropical America and West Indies ; Fiji ; Samoa ; 



N°254. 

 STENOCHL^NA SORBIFOLIA. 



Lomari- 



