12 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



sori 2-12 to a pinna, minute axillary ; the mouth rather spread- 

 ing, but not two-lipped. Hook. Syn. Fil. 88. T. foeniculaceum. 

 (Bory.) 



Perak. (Day.) Singapore. (Moore's Herb.) 



(Also in Borneo, Mauritius, Bourbon, and Queensland.) 



TRIBE IV — DAVALLIEiE. 



3A. Humata sessilifolia. (Bl.) "Rhizome very long, 

 wide, creeping, densely clothed with rigid filiform scales ; fronds 

 subsessile, 2-4 inches long, 1-1^ inch broad, ovate-lanceolate, cut 

 down nearly to the rachis into parallel linear-oblong entire or 

 sinuate lobes, the lower side of the lower one sometimes deeply 

 pinnatifid ; texture subcoriaceous ; sori in two rows in the lobes, 

 occupying the greater part of the space between the costa and 

 margin." Hook. Syn. Fil. p 89. 



Singapore. (Sinclair.) Also in Moore's Herbarium. 



(Also in Java, Celebes, and Fiji.) 



4A. Humata pinnatifida. (Baker.) Rhizome slender, 

 firm, wide-creeping, clothed with close-pressed ovate peltate 

 scales, glaucous beneath the scales ; stipes distant, firm, erect, 

 stramineous, up to 4 inches long ; fronds elongate-deltoid, broadest 

 at the base, gradually] narrowed towards the apex, 3-5^ inches 

 long by 2\ inches broad at base, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis 

 into numerous deltoid-lanceolate, entire or slightly lobed segments, 

 the lowest pair much the broadest, deltoid, lobed on the lower 

 margin ; texture rigidly coriaceous ; veins simple or forked ; sori 

 terminal on the veins ; indusium rigid, persistent, much broader 

 than long. Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 257. 



Larut, Perak, on trees in dense jungles, 3.500-4,500 feet alt. 

 (Dr. King's collector, No. 6393.) 



(Also in Borneo, on the Niah Hills.) 



