Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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thick as a sparrow's quill, scaly at the apex, scales lanceolate ; stipes 

 remote, slender, 1-3 or in those of the fertile frond 4 inches long ; 

 sterile fronds membranaceous, 1 5-2 inches long, oblong or broad- 

 lanceolate, costate, tapering into a stipe 2§ inches long ; costules in- 

 distinct, areoles with a free included clavate veinlet, smaller towards 

 the margin ; fertile fronds 2 inches long, linear obtuse. Metten. Fit. 

 Hart. Lips. p. 20. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 277. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 116. 



Khasya Hills, 2,000-4,500 feet, in river sands, perhaps only 

 a small form of variabilis var. lanceolata. 



3. Gvmnopteris Wallii. (Baker.) Rhizome slender, wide- 



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GYMNOPTERIS METALLICA. {Bcdd.) 



W26I. 

 GYMNOPTERIS SPICATA. (L. f 



creeping, scales minute, grey, lanceolate acuminate ; sterile fronds 

 linear, subsessile, 8-9 inches long, under \ inch broad, narrowed to 

 both ends, obscurely repand, texture thin but rigid, surfaces naked, 

 bright green ; midrib stramineous, veins slender, immersed, forming 

 a single cost d row of long areoles, usually with a free decurved vein- 

 let springing from the outer border ; fertile frond filiform, 6-8 inches 



