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8. Cheilanthes farixosa. Mr. Blandford has proposed the 

 name of anceps for the lanceolate variety of farinosa, so common 

 on all the mountain ranges in India ; it, however, was figured 

 by Hooker in his Sp. Fi'l. as bullosa {Kze.), vol. ii. pi. 96 ; and 

 afterwards by me under the same name, pi. 192, Ferns Southern 

 India. I afterwards found, by long observation, that it ran 

 so imperceptibly into the more deltoid forms which grow at lower 

 elevations that I did not even propose it as a distinct variety in 

 my handbook ; the stipes and rachises vary from being very scaly 

 to quite glabrous. [Vide Kunze Linncea. xxiv. p. 272). If a 

 separate name is given to this form it should be var. bullosa, 

 {Kze.) 



Cheilaxthes farixosa var. grisea. (Blanf) " Stipes 

 slender, 2-6 inches long, light brown, naked or bearing a few 

 thin, brown and translucent-lanceolate scales near the base; fronds 

 dimorphous, one form narrow-lanceolate, 4-5 inches long, 1^-2 

 broad, thin papyraceous, lower 3-4 pairs of pinnae subequal 

 distant, under surface thickly coated, upper surface sprinkled, with 

 white powder, segments narrow-oblong ; the other form ovate- 

 lanceolate, pinnae close triangular ; lower two pairs equal, both 

 forms fertile, involucres as in typical farinosa." Blandford, Jour. 

 Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, vol. lviii. part 2, p. 302. 



Nagkanda, 8,300-8,500 feet alt. ; Darjeeling, 8,000 feet alt. ; 

 Khasia, Nunklow, 2,500 feet alt. Clarke, No. 45,686. Cheilanthes 

 farinosa var. tenera. Clarke and Baker, Ferns of N. India, Jour. 

 Linn. foe. vol. xxiv./. 411. 



A delicate, slender plant. I have never seen any form like it 

 in Southern India. I attach no importance to the dimorphism of 

 the fronds, as typical farinosa and some other of the varieties, 

 show this tendency more or less. 



Cheilanthes farinosa var, st-bdimorpha. Clarke and 

 Baker, Ferns of N. India , Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiv. p. 411. 

 Shillong. 5,000 feet. ( Clarke, No. 40,629.) Yunan (Delavay). 



