4"o Ferns of British India and Ceylon. ' 



Var. major. Stipes z\ feet long ; fronds 4-6 feet long ; 

 pinnae glabrous, the three lower pair very much defiexed, about 

 1 foot long, 2-2J inches broad, cut down nearly to the rachis into 

 narrow-oblong slightly crenated segments ; veins generally forked, 

 sometimes simple ; sori reaching from midrib to margin. 



Perak, top of Gunong Boobo, 5,000 feet alt. {Dr. King, 

 No. 7,403.) Perhaps a distinct species, but there is little except 

 its size to distinguish it from sorzogonense. 



15. Diplazium sorzogonense var. /3 Stoliczk^e. Pinnae 

 1-1J inch broad ; pinnules distinctly lobed at the margins ; veins 

 6-8, often forked. 



15. Diplazium sorzogonense var. y hirsutipes. Stipes 

 very hirsute at the base, with hair-like scales, pinnae J— § inch 

 broad, entire or very slightly crenated, veins 6-8 often forked. 



These two last Mr. Baker thinks can only be considered as 

 varieties of No. 14, the Malay peninsula fern, which has the 

 pinnae ij-if inch broad, entire or subentire pinnules, 10 veins, 

 generally all simple, very rarely forked. 



16. Diplazium asperum. Perak. {Scortechhii ; King 534 

 and 10,849.) 



17. Diplazium polypodioides. Dr. Watt informs me that 

 the young uncurled fronds are eaten as a spinach by the hill 

 people in the Punjab, and are called Kasmor. 



Diplazium umbrosum var. multicaudatum. Mussoorie. 

 {Hope). 



3A. Anisogonium decussatum. (Sw.) " Stipes 1-2 feet long, 

 strong, erect, often muricated; fronds 2-4 feet long, with numerous 

 pinnae on each side, which are 6-12 inches long, 1-2 inches 

 broad, often proliferous in the axils, the edge nearly entire or 

 slightly lobed ; texture herbaceous or subcoriaceous ; veins in 



