426 



Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



unequal sided, the inferior basal portion being much cut away, 

 the upper side deeper cut than in the type. P. aspleniifolia, Bory, in 

 Belang. Voy. Bot. 23, t. 3. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 195. Acrost. Wighti- 

 anum, Wall. Cat. 2163. 



South India, in moist evergreen 

 forests on the western side, up to 

 nearly 4,000 feet elevation. (Not 

 - found in North India.) 

 1) This can only be considered a 



variety of this variable species, it 

 looks, however, very different when 

 , i; >* growing, being a much brighter 



polybotrya appendiculata. g re en and a far prettier species than 

 {Willd.) var. 5 Hamiltoniana. the typCj it ig constant t0 its char . 



acters in cultivation. 



Var. S Hamiltoniana. 



(Willd.) 



N?257- 

 POLYBOTRYA APPENDICULATA. 

 VAR. £ COSTULATA. 



pinnules up to 3^ inches long, 



( Wall.) Fertile pinnae interrupted, 

 the sori in bead-like clusters. 

 Wall. Cat. 29. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. in, the lower 3 figures. 

 Polyb. Helferiana (Kze), Schk. 

 Supp. 2 p. 47. /. 114. 



Chittagong, Assam; Te- 

 nasserim,and Malay Peninsula 

 generally. 



Var. £ costulata. (Jlook.) 

 Sterile pinnae pinnatifid \-l 

 down to the rachis ; main 

 veins costulate and prominent, 

 the lowest pair of pinnae often 

 more or less bipinnate both in 

 the sterile and fertile, some- 

 times half deltoid and deeply 

 bipinnate at the base, the 

 and again deeply pinnatifid. 



