86 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



space between the midrib and margin. Baker, Ann, Bot, 

 vol. v., 464. 



Penang. (Curtis.) 



5B. Polypodium adspersum. (BI.) Rhizome creeping, 

 squamose, scales ovate, oblong, acuminate, entire yellowish, 

 deciduous ; fronds subsessile, linear, 3-7 inches long, J-^ inch 

 broad, above sparingly nigro-punctate, coriaceous, glabrous ; 

 veins inconspicuous, once forked not reaching the margin, the 

 upper fork short ; sori subrotund (or oblong when young) on the 

 upper shorter veinlet parallel with and near the costa. Bl. En. 

 Fil. Jav. 



Singapore, Lobb. (In Moore*s Herbarium.) 



(Also in Java.) 



5c. Polypodium setigerum. (BL) " Stipes densely tufted, 

 clothed with long soft-spreading ferruginous hairs, 2-3 inches 

 long; fronds 8-12 inches long, f— f inch broad, the point acute, 

 the lower part narrowed rather suddenly, the edge entire ; texture 

 subcoriaceous, both sides thinly clothed with long soft hairs, like 

 the stem ; veins pinnate ; sori round, in long rows close to the 

 midrib." Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 320. 



Singapore. (In Moore's Herbarium) 



(Also in Java.) 



5D. Polypodium subpinnatifidum. (Bl.) " Fronds tufted, 

 subsessile, 4-6 inches long, 2 lines broad, attenuated at the base, 

 cut down nearly to the rachis into lobes the upper edge of which 

 is nearly straight and horizontal, and the lower very oblique ; 

 texture subcoriaceous, both sides naked ; veins forked, the upper 

 branch bearing a solitary sorus on each lobe." Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 334. 



Malay Peninsula ; Gounong Korbou. (M.J. dc Morgan) 



(Also in Java and Sandwich Islands.) 



