Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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long, f-f inch broad, cuneate at the base, and often slightly stalked, 

 the edge entire or sharply toothed ; texture coriaceous, rachis and 

 both sides glabrous ; fertile pinnae shorter, made up of numerous 

 close but distinct oblong sessile clusters. Bl. Enum. p. 252. Bedd. 

 F. S. I. t. 77. 



Ceylon, about Newera Elya ; South India, cultivated only (?) '■> 

 Malay Peninsula; Tenasserim, banks of rivers in the plains. This 

 is commonly in cultivation in Southern India, but I very much doubt 

 if it is wild ; I have never found it myself, though I have specimens 

 said to have been collected in the Western ghats. 



(Also in Java.) 



DA CLAYTONIANA. (Z.) 



SS N?276- 

 OSMUNDA REGALIS. (L.) 



2. Osmunda Claytoniana. (Lin.) Stipes tufted, 1 foot or 

 more long, clothed with loose woolly ferruginous tomentum when 

 young, at length glabrous; fronds 1-2 feet long, 8-12 inches broad, 

 simply pinnate ; pinnae deeply pinnatifid, the uppermost and lowest 

 barren, some of the intermediate fertile, barren ones lanceolate, 4-6 

 inches long, 1 inch or more broad, the lobes oblong, entire, texture 



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