26 Ferns of British India and Ceylon; 



to that genus, the Phegopteris, however, will, I expect, eventually 

 be referred here (see the remarks in Syn. Fil. under Hypolepis 

 Purdieana and Phegopteris punctata,//. 130 and 312). I have 

 never detected a regular indusium in the Phegopteris, but the 

 unchanged margin of the frond is often re flexed over the sorus. 



1. Cheilanthes Duthiei. {Baker, Ann. Bot. vol. v.) 

 Caudex erect; stipes densely tufted, castaneous, glabrous, 1-1J 

 inch long, with a few scales towards the base; fronds oblong- 

 deltoid, membranous, glabrous, pinnate, pinnatifid upwards, 

 2 inches long, green on both surfaces ; pinnae oblong-deltoid, 

 sessile, the lowest the largest, produced on the lower side ; 

 pinnules oblong, \-\ inch broad ; sori placed all round the edge 

 of the pinnules, usually orbicular, rarely confluent ; indusium 

 grey, glabrous, orbicular-reniform, persistent. Cutting of sub* 

 villosa, but different in its indusium. It belongs to Fee's section 

 Adiantopsis, which has the involucres distinct and roundish, 

 confined to the apex of a single veinlet, instead of being more or 

 less confluent. 



Rock crevices near the Kinari Pass, 12,000-13,000 feet alt. 

 ( Garhwal). 



4A. Cheilanthes tricophylla. (Baker.) Caudex erect ; 

 stipes tufted, pubescent, brown, 4-5 inches long ; fronds oblong- 

 lanceolate, tripinnatifid, coriaceous ; a foot long, 3-4 inches 

 broad ; main rachis fiexuose, pubescent, glaucous, sparingly hairy 

 above, less so or glabrous beneath ; pinnae patent, oblong-lanceo' 

 late ; secondary pinnae shortly petioled, triangu3ar from a broad 

 base, cut down nearly to the rachis into linear falcate segments, 

 the lower ones about \ inch long; veins invisible; indusium 

 broad, whitish, continuous, persistent. (Baker, Ann. Bot. v. 

 1891.) 



Yunan ; on the mountain Yanin Glan, above Lan Kong. 

 (Delavay.) 



7. Cheilanthes tenuifolia. Ceylon. (Trimen.) 



