Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 89 



naked ; fronds 1 foot or more long, 2 inches broad, cut down to 

 the rachis into close horizontal, almost entire, or faintly crenated 

 pinnae, 2-3 lines broad ; texture papyraceo-herbaceous ; rachis and 

 both surfaces naked ; veins black, distinct, once forked ; sori in 

 rows near the edge, deeply immersed, the cavity prominent on the 

 upper side." Hook. Syn. Fil. 332, 2 cent, t. 46. 



Perak, 3.000 feet alt. (Scortechim. Day. King, No's. 1,994 

 and 7,206. 



(Also in Java and Philippines.) 



Polypodium texuisf.ctum. (Bl.) " Stipe tufted, short, 

 wiry, 1-2 inches long, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fronds 

 6-9 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad ; pinnae close, 2 lines broad, 

 cut down to a narrow rachis into linear very regular erecto-patent 

 lobes ; texture subcoriaceous, rachis erect straight villose, both 

 sides naked ; veinlets simple, immersed 1 to each lobe ; sori 

 much broader than the lobes, placed at their base." Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. 338- 



Perak, 4,000 feet alt. {Day, Scortcchini.) 



(Also in Java.) 



1. GoxiOPHLKBiuM am(enum. Simla and Kullu (Trotter) ; 

 Chumba [McDonnell). 



(Also in China.) 



Mr. C. B. Clarke has gathered a variety of this in Khasia 

 with the fronds furnished with copious short pubescence on the 

 under surface, which he calls yar. pilosa. Jonr. Linn. Soc. xxiv., 

 p. 417. 



[A. Goniophlebium yunanense. (Franchet.) Rhizome stout, 

 creeping, densely covered with closely imbricated scales, the 

 fibrous roots also furnished with hair-like scales, stipes 4-5 inches 

 long, pinkish, nearly glabrous; fronds 8-12 inches long by 

 4-5 inches broad at base, deltoid-lanceolate, cut down nearly to 

 the rachis into lanceolate, acuminate, obscurely crenated pinnae, 



