2 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Penang and Perak, at sea level. {Scorlechini. Day.) 

 (Also in the Malay Islands, Java, Fiji, Mauritius, Bourbon, 

 Madagascar.) 



3B. Gleichenia hirta. (BI.) " Fronds chartaceous when dry, 

 opaque, green above, beneath glaucous (particularly on the rachis 

 and costas), with the small gemmae densely paleaceous with 

 ferruginous lanceolate scales paler at the margin and ciliated, at 

 length bare on the costa, many times dichotomous ; branches 

 ascendanti-flabellate ; primary ones I inch long, nudate ; secondary 

 ones Itt inch long, subnudate ; tertiary ones, subelongate ; ulti- 

 mate ones (or pinnae), 7-9 inches long, standing at an angle of 

 30°, linear gradually attenuated, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes 8 inches 

 long, 1 1 inch broad, oblong-linear, obtuse, slightly curved, the 

 margin revolute, the sides entire, the apex denticulate ; veins lax, 

 slender ; sori between the costa and the margin, of 3-5 capsules." 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 14. 



Penang. {Sir W. Norn's.) 



SUB-ORDER II.— POLYPODIACE/E. 

 TRIBE I.— CYATHEA, 



2. Cyathea Brunonis, Perak, up to 500 feet alt. {Scorlechini, 

 Day.) 



4. Cyathea spinulosa. Hemitelia Beddomei {Clarke) is a 

 synonym. 



2. Amphicosmia decipiens. This is now considered, by 

 N. Indian botanists, as not distinct from Cyathea spinulosa. 



3. Amphicosmia Brunoniana. The involucre is completely 

 spherical in the young state, so this is transferred to Cyathea, vide 

 Clarke and Baker. Jour. Linn, Soc. xxiv. p. 409. Clarke's 

 Var. /3 Scottii is ornata. 



4. Amphicosmia alterSans. The involucre is completely 

 spherical, so this becomes Cyathea alternans. ( Wall) Cyathea 

 sarawakensis, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 23 } is the same plant, but a 



