Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 7 



glabrous, 1-2 feet or more long, if-6 inches broad, linear-oblong, 

 pinnatifid or nearly pinnate, from the wing being inconspicuous ; 

 pinnules oblong, from a broad base (which runs into the more or 

 less developed wing to the rachis), J-i inch broad ; margin entire 

 when sterile, lobed when fertile, apex generally rounded (but 

 acuminate in the upper lobes in some examples) ; lobes of fertile 

 pinnules 3-6 on each side, dilated at the apex into a cupuliform 

 cartilaginous cup, which forms the indusium, and is reflexed 

 when dry ; veins immersed, except the costa ; areoles copious, 



Perak. (J. Day. King.) 



(Also in the Malay Islands and the Philippines.) 



1. Dexnst.edtia scabra. Near Simla, 5,000-6,000 feet alt. 

 (Dr. Watt.) 



2. Denxst.edtia appendiculata, var. Elwesii. Demist. 

 Elwesii, Baker ; Bedd. Handbook, p. 26. Ample specimens 

 collected by Mr. Levinge prove this to be only a glabrous var. of 

 appendiculata. 



SUB-ORDER.— HYMENOPHYLLACE^E. 

 This tribe is now removed from this sub-order (Polypodiaceas) 

 by Mr. Baker, and made a sub-order of itself, standing between 

 Gleicheniacece and Polypodiaceae. 



4. Hv.MEXOPHYLLUM POLYANTHOS VAR. 7 BLUMEANUM. 



Perak, 4,000 feet alt. (Day, Scortechim.) 



5. HVMEXOPHVLLUM AUSTRALE (Wtllu. S/>. PI, V. 527) is an 



older name than javanicum. {Sprang.) 

 Xaga Hills, on Jakpho, 7,500 feet alt. 

 Var. /3 badium. Perak, 4,000 feet. (Day. Scortechim',) 



5-\. Hymenophyllum dilatatum. (Sw.) " Stipe 2-4 inches 

 long, erect, wiry, slightly winged above ; fronds 6-12 inches long, 

 4-6 inches broad, ovate-lanceolate tripinnatifid ; main rachis 

 winged throughout, the wing quite flat; lower pinnae rhomboidal- 

 lanceolate, divided down nearly to the rachis, the lower pinnule 



