62 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



(Also in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Ceram. Samoa, and 

 Philippines.) 



Var. y rhodolepis. {Clarke) Similar to var. /3, only the 

 stipe, rachis, &c, copiously furnished with adpressed or sub- 

 adpressed, ovate, acute, hyaline, reticulated scales, instead of the 

 hair-like scales. Clarke, F. N. I. p. 526. 



N. India, Sikkim, 1,000 feet alt. {Hooker and Thomson) ; 

 Shillong, 3,500 feet alt. {Clarke) ; Chittagong, 150 feet alt. 

 {Clarke) ; Khasia {Simons) ; Assam [Griffith). Mr. Clarke also 

 states that it is found up to 7,000 feet alt. 



(Also in China, Formosa, Japan, Fiji and Samoa. Japan 

 examples vary from as simple as intermedia (type) to fully 

 tripinnate.) 



Blume's type specimen at Kew, and his description, and that 

 of Sir W. Hooker prove that the more simple variety, lately 

 described by Mr. Hope under the name of Mannii, is the type 

 of intermedia. Mr. Mann informs me that the simple variety 

 does not run into compound forms in Assam, which is curious, 

 as it certainly does so elsewhere, so that Sir W. Hooker did not 

 even think it necessary to record them as varieties, the fact that 

 the simple form only of the hairy variety occurs in N. India, 

 and the compound form only in Ceylon, has compelled me to 

 give them distinct names as varieties, the two ferns looking very 

 different without intermediates. It will be seen that the distribu- 

 tion of the hairy and scaly varieties is not strictly geographical, 

 both being found in Samoa, and the scaly variety in Fiji, the 

 indumentum varies considerably in the Ceylon examples, but it is 

 never so scaly as in rhodolepis. 



41. Lastrea splendens. 

 (Also in West China.) 



42. Lastrea angustifrons. A very distinct species in its 

 widely creeping rhizome. Only gathered by Wallich. 



