Ferns of British India and Ceylon. Sy 



7. Polypodium corxigerum. Perak. Mount Idjo, 5,000 feet 

 alt. [Day, Scortechini.) 



8. Polypodium cucullatum. Perak. {Scortechim'. King, 

 No. 6,972.) 



(Also in New Guinea and Fiji.) 



Sa. Polypodium streptophyllum. {Baker.) " Densely 

 tufted ; stipe scarcely any ; frond linear, 3-4 inches long by 

 i inch broad, cut down to the rachis into many ligulate, entire 

 slightly twisted, adnate, contiguous pinnae J of a line broad, with 

 a single medial nerve, and a single superficial sorus at the tip ; 

 firm in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces ; lower pinnae 

 gradually reduced in size." Baker, Jour. Bot. 1879, 42. 



Singapore. {Murton.) Near cucullatum, but fully pinnate 

 with apical sori. 



9. Polypodium khasyanum Perak, 4,000 feet alt. {Day, 

 Scortechini.) 



10. Polypodium trichomanoides. Jakpho, Naga Hills, 

 9,000 feet alt. [Clarke) 



(Also mountains of Mozambique, 5,000 feet alt.) 



ioa. Polypodium triaxgulare. {Scortechim'.) Rhizome 

 erect, short, covered with scales ; fronds tufted, subsessile, linear, 

 attenuated at both ends, 6-8 inches by £ inch, thick, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, whitish beneath, cut down to the rachis into thick 

 distichous triangular segments, which are obtuse when barren, 

 and acute when fertile, convex above, flat on the lower surface ; 

 veins hidden, sori sunk in a deep pit towards the apex of the 

 superior triangular segments, the lamina on both sides at the apex 

 being folded inwards. Bedd. in Jour. Bot., 1887, vol. xxv., 

 p. 324 with fig. 



Perak. Mount Idjo, 5,000 feet alt. {Scortechim', Day, 

 King.) 



