26 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



2. Lomaria procera. (Spr.) Caudex stout, woody, elongated, 

 clothed with large ovate or lanceolate ferruginous scales ; stipes 

 6-12 inches long, stout, erect, scaly ; barren frond, ovate or 

 deltoid-triangular, 1-4 feet long, 6-12 inches broad; pinnae 

 linear, 3-12 inches long, |— r inch broad, the lower ones 

 often stalked, the base rounded, cordate, or auricled, gradually 

 narrowed into a point at apex entire or slightly toothed, texture 

 coriaceous ; veins fine, close and parallel, simple or forked ; mid- 

 rib beneath more or less chaffy fertile pinnae, much contracted ; 

 involucre broad, membranaceous ciliated. 



Perak, Gunong, Bata-Putcho, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. on rocks in 

 rich soil. (Dr. King's collector, No. 8,065.) In King's speci- 

 mens the fronds are quite triangular, the whole of the stipe and 

 rachis is densely covered with large orange brown scales ; it is 

 the variety called vestita by Blume. 



1. Plagiogyria adnata. Birma, Nat. Toung, 7,500 feet alt. 



GENUS XXXVIa.-SADLERIA. (Kaulf) 



Sori in a continuous line close to the midrib on both sides, 

 placed on an elevated receptacle ; involucre narrow subcoriaceous, 

 at first wrapped over the sorus, afterwards spreading ; veins 

 forming a series of costal arches ; caudex 3-4 feet high, arbor- 

 escent. 



Sadleria cyatheoides. {Kaulf.) " Stipes strong, erect, 

 6-18 inches long, naked except at the base, where it is densely 

 clothed with long linear scales ; fronds 4-6 feet long, 9-18 inches 

 broad ; pinnae 8-12 inches long, -|— § inch broad, cut down to the 

 rachis into very numerous connected linear pinnules, \-\ inch 

 broad, acute or bluntish ; texture coriaceous ; veins immersed and 

 inconspicuous ; rachis stout, naked." Hook. Syn. Fil. 187. 



Perak. (Day) 



(Also in Sumatra and Sandwich Islands.) 



