450 



Perns of British India and Ceylon, 



herbaceous, fertile pinna? shorter, pinnules dense cylindrical. Lin. Sp. 

 PL 152 1. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 187. 



Himalayas from Kashmir to Bhotan, 6,000-10,000 feet elevation. 

 Khasya, 4,500-6,000 feet. 



(Also in North America.) 



3. OSMUNDA REGALIS. (Z.) 



Stipes tufted, 12-18 inches long, 

 firm, erect, naked; fronds 2-4 feet 

 long, 1 foot or more broad, bi- 

 pinnate, the barren and fertile sepa- 

 rate, or the frond barren below 

 and fertile above, barren pinnae 6-12 

 inches long, 2-4 inches broad, pin- 

 nules sessile or slightly stalked, 1-2 

 inches long, -|-f inch broad, oblong, 

 blunt, often unequal at the base, 

 the edge finely serrulate, texture 

 subcoriaceous, rachis and both 

 sides naked, fertile pinnules cylin- 

 drical, forming a copious panicle. 

 Z. Sp. PL 152. Bedd. F. S. I. 

 t. 76. 



South India, common on the 

 Western mountains at the higher 

 elevations; North India, Kumaon, 

 Bhotan, Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet, 

 (small, the fertile and barren fronds 

 generally separate.) 



W?277. 

 SCHIZ/EA MALACCANA. 



{Baker) 



SUB-ORDER IV.— SCHIZJEACEJE. 



Capsule 2-valved, opening down the side, crowned by a complete 

 operculiform ring ; venation circinate. 



