4 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



beneath ; pinnules all free, lanceolate-oblong, base parallel with 

 the rachis, apex obtuse, i|— 3 inches by \ inch, subcoriaceous, 

 glabrous on both sides, except on the hairy costa and scaly bullate 

 costules beneath ; cut half-way down to the rachis into broad 

 obtuse segments ; veins 4-5 in each segment, simple or more 

 commonly forked ; sori medial on the lower veinlets, occupying the 

 undivided portion of the pinnules mixed with transparent monili- 

 form hairs. 



Perak on Mt. Idjo, 4,000-5,000 feet alt. (Scortechini. Day.) 

 Nearly allied to comosa, turns black in drying, the pinnules 

 falling off. 



8. Alsophila commutata. Perak, alt. 5,000 feet. (Day, 

 Scortechim.) 



11. Alsophila Kingi. (Handbook, additions and corrections.) 

 Alsophila Bakeri Zeiller (Ext. du Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de 

 France, torn, xxxii.) is a synonym. 



12. Alsophila dubia. (Bedd.) Stipes ?, main rachis, and 

 rachis of pinnae purple-brown, slightly furfuraceous above, 

 glabrous below ; fronds subcoriaceo-membranous ; primary 

 pinnae 16-20 inches long, pinnate with the apex only pinnatifid ; 

 pinnules about 4 inches long by f inches broad on petioles 

 t-i| lines long, more or less truncate at the base, much acu- 

 minate at the apex, pinnatifid only about one-sixth of the way 

 to the costule, the very shallow lobes rather truncate ; costules 

 scaly below or at length glabrous, furfuraceous above ; veins 

 pinnate, veinlets simple; sori large, generally only in 1-2 rows, i.e., 

 on the 1-2 lower veinlets only, but sometimes in 3-4 rows, i.e., on 

 3-4 veinlets, and then near the base of the veinlets, and conse- 

 quently parallel with the primary vein, and not shaped like an 

 inverted V as in glabra. Jour. Bot. vol. xxv. p. 321. 



Perak, 4,000 feet alt. (Day.) Its nearest ally is podophylla 

 (Hooker). 



(Also in Java.) 



