434 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



the fronds all 3-foliate and the pinnae often deeply lobed, particularly 

 the two lower ones, these simple and 3-foliate fronds grow on 

 the same rhizome, the broad sterile fronds are often partially seeded, 

 particularly on the long terminal cauda. I have only seen pinnate 

 fronds on North Indian examples. 



Sir W. Hooker in his Sp. Fil. gives Malabar for a locality and 

 quotes Rheede,Hort. Malab. xii. 1 1, which plate isDrynariaquercifolia; 

 PL 19 is probably intended, which however is Gymnopteris subcrenata. 

 On one of Wallich's sheets of this fern (25, No. 3) there is written, 

 Rheede, Malab. xii. t. 19. 



8. Gymnopteris subrepanda. (Hook.) Rhizome woody, 

 wide-creeping ; stipes of barren fronds stout erect, nearly naked ; 

 barren fronds varying from simple, 1 foot long, if-2 inches broad, to 

 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, copiously pinnate, with several linear-oblong 

 entire or subrepand pinnse on each side, which are sometimes 6-9 

 inches long, 2 inches broad, texture subcoriaceous, surfaces and 

 rachis naked ; main veins distinct nearly to the edge, with copious 

 areoles, with free veinlets between them ; fertile fronds like the others, 

 but smaller. Sy?i. Fil. p. 419. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 275. Bedd. 

 F. B. I. t. 339. 



Penang. 



This is nearly allied to the more pinnate varieties of flagellifera. 

 Dodgson's specimen from the Himalayas referred here in the Kew 

 Herb, certainly belongs to flagellifera. 



9. Gymnopteris tricuspis. (Hook.) Rhizome creeping, 

 clothed with subulate setaceous ferruginous scales ; stipes 1 foot long, 

 i-| of the fertile frond; sterile frond subcoriaceous, subtriangular- 

 caudate, 8-10 inches long, 10-12 inches wide at the base, including 

 the spread of the lateral lobes, deeply trilobate or 4-lobed, lateral 

 lobes 5 inches or more long, i-| inch wide, horizontally patent, inter- 

 mediate one 6 inches and more long, 2 inches wide, all of them ob- 

 long-lanceolate acuminate, entire unicostate ; venation manifest, 

 costules distant, indistinct, connected by transverse irregular curved 

 veins forming large areoles enclosing lesser ones which have copious 



