88 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. ' 



14. Polypodium fuscatum. Perak, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. 

 {Day, Scortechz'm'.) The Ceylon locality must be omitted, the 

 species not being found in that island. 



(Also in Sumatra.) 



15. Polypodium nutans. {Bl.) Rhizome short, creeping ; 

 stipes and rachis puberulous ; fronds linear-lanceolate, deeply 

 pinnatifid, subcoriaceous, glabrous, or slightly pilose, segments 

 alternate, linear, obtuse, entire, the lower ones triangular ; veins 

 simple, inconspicuous; sori not sunk, medial on the veins in a 

 single row between the costa and the margin. Bl. Fil. Jav. 188, 

 /. 66. Near obliquatum, but sori not immersed ; scales of the 

 caudex loosely imbricate, elongato-linear, setaceo-acuminate, long- 

 ciliate ; fronds 5-14 inches long, |— \\ inches broad, segments 

 subhorizontal or erecto-patent, dotted underneath. 



Malacca, Mount Ophir, on trees. {Moore's Herb?) 

 (Also in Java.) 



17. Polypodium subfalcatum. Perak, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. 

 {Day. Scortechini. ) 



Polypodium vulgare. (Z.) " Rhizome stout, the scales 

 bright ferruginous, stipes 2-4 inches long, firm erect stramineous ; 

 fronds 6-12 inches long, 3-6 inches broad, cut down nearly or 

 quite to the rachis into close entire or slightly toothed usually 

 blunt pinnae J— | inch broad ; texture herbaceous or subcoriaceous, 

 both sides naked ; veinlets pinnate ; sori large, uniserial." Hook. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 334. 



Thibet. {Father David) 



(Also throughout Europe, the Azores, Madeira, Japan, Cape 

 Colony. N. America — Sitka southward to California and the 

 north of America.) 



Polypodium papillosum. {Bl.) " Rhizome stout, wide- 

 creeping scaly ; stipes 4-6 inches long, erect, slender, rigid 



