Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 83 



long, 2|— 4 inches broad ; rachis sparingly furnished with 

 minute scales ; pinnae lanceolate, patent, or slightly ascending, 

 sessile, cut down nearly to the rachis into ovate, rounded, crenate, 

 or bicrenate segments ; veins pinnate, veinlets forked ; sori 

 ovate or rotundate, 4-8 to each lobe on the middle of the veins, 

 halfway between midrib and margin. Franc hct PL David 11. 



Moupine, in mountain woods. Habit of the European 

 Phegopteris alpestre, but texture thicker, the pinnae closer, and 

 the sori larger. 



9A. Phegopteris manipurensis. {Bedd.) Rhizome erect ; 

 stipes up to 20 inches or more long, densely furnished with 

 large, broad, lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, pale brown 

 scales ; fronds ij feet or more long by 16 inches broad, deltoid- 

 lanceolate or deltoid-ovate, tripinnate, with the tertiary pinnae 

 pinnatifid ; rachises furnished with ferruginous, curled, many- 

 jointed, hair-like scales, the main one somewhat flexuose ; pinnae 

 erecto-patent, about 3 inches broad, the lowest ones as large or 

 nearly as large as the next above, with their lower secondary 

 pinnae generally more or less produced ; secondary pinnae f— § 

 inch broad ; tertiary pinnae from a broad sessile base pinnatifid 

 nearly balf way down, with a square or somewhat rounded, 

 deeply-serrated apex ; texture herbaceous, both sides furnished 

 with hair-like scales, similar to those on the rachis ; sori 

 generally one to each ultimate segment, medial, apical, or nearly 

 apical on the lower veinlets. Bedd. Jour, of Bot. 1888, 235. 



Sirohiparar, 6,000-7,000 feet alt. ; Manipur [Dr. Watt) ; 

 Mairang, Khasia Hills, 5,000 feet alt. {Mann) ; Nepal [Wallich 

 Cat. 322, 2nd sheet). 



Very similar in habit to Lastrea scabrosa, from which it 

 differs in its indumentum and the shape of the tertiary pinnules ; 

 the lower secondary pinnules of the lowest pair of pinnae are 

 sometimes not at all produced, and never so much so as in 

 Lastrea scabrosa ; there is no trace of any indusium in the 

 youngest examples. Lastrea scabrosa is also, I believe, a true 

 Phegopteris. 



