Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 93 



3. Drvxaria propixqua. Kohima, 6,000 feet alt. 



4. Drvxaria mollis. Kullu and Simla (Trotter), Chumba 

 (McDonnell). 



7. Drvxaria rigidula. Perak, 3,000 feet alt. (Day), Poly- 

 podium glaucostipes Wall. Cat. 297. 



Drvxaria HeracleluM. (Kunzc.) " Rhizome stout, the scales 

 long silky, fibrillose bright brown ; fronds 3-6 feet long, 2 feet or 

 more broad, the base with a cordate lobed wing 3-4 inches broad, 

 the upper part cut down to a broadly-winged rachis into entire 

 acute lobes, which are often 12-18 inches long, 3-4 inches broad ; 

 texture rigid, both sides naked; main veins distinct to the 

 edge, with 6-8 irregular quadrangular areola? between the 

 midrib and edge, enclosing smaller ones with copious free veinlets ; 

 sori small, copious, scattered, slightly immersed." Hook. Syn. 

 Fil.p. 366. 



Perak, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. [Day, Scortechini, King.) 

 (Also in Java and Philippines.) 



1. Pleopeltis accedexs. Perak, 3,000 feet alt. (Day, 

 Scortcchini. King, No. 1,900.) 



ia. Pleopeltis Wravi. (Baker.) " Rhizome slender, wide- 

 creeping, palese dense lanceolate acuminate ciliated, ferruginous ; 

 fronds simple dimorphic, sterile oblanceolate, obtuse, thick, 

 glabrous 1 — 1 J inches long, |— \ inch bro?d, with a naked stipe 

 1 -1 5 lines long, fertile, with a longer stipe and a linear blade 

 2-3 inches long, J-£ inch broad ; sori globose, superficial, medial." 

 Ann. Hot. vol. v. /. 473. 



Perak, Mount Idjo, on trees 5,000 feet alt. (Day. Scorlccliuil, 

 W'ray. King, Nos. 2,358, 3,673.) 



