Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 95 



acute, the edge translucent, entire, or more or less scalloped, texture 

 very thick and rigid, both sides naked ; main veins very distinct 

 and raised, the areoles hidden ; the upper surface with close, small, 

 dirty-white dots ; sori much immersed in single rows between the 

 main veins, 8-9 between midrib and margin. Hook. Sft. Fil. p. 

 359. Polypodium crassinervium, BI. 



Perak, 3,000 feet alt. (-Day, Scortechim, King, No. 2,007.) 



(Also in Java.) 



16. Pleopeltis membranacea. Simla, 5,000 feet alt. Kash- 

 mir. 



(Also in West China and the Philippines.) 



i 6a. Pleopeltis Scortechinii. (Baker.) Rhizome woody, 

 wide-creeping, flexuose calvate ; stipes brown, naked, 15-16 inches 

 long ; fronds lanceolate to oblanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous 

 or sub membranaceous, glabrous, i6-r8 inches long by 3-3-J inches 

 broad, obscurely repand, narrowed gradually from the middle to 

 the base ; main veins distinct to nearly the edge, -J inch apart, 

 areoles copious with free included veinlets, clearly visible when 

 held up to the light ; sori minute superficial, scattered between 

 the main veins, often confluent. Baker, Ann. Bol. vol. v. 477. 

 Nephrodium pteropodum, Baker, Jour. Bot. 1888, 232 (pleio 

 podum by error, Ann. Bot. 1891). 



Perak. (Scortechzni, Day. -King, No. 8,382.) 



(Also in YV. Borneo.) 



17. Pleopeltis Zippellii. West Munipore, 1,000 feet alt. 



19. Pleopeltis mus^folia. Perak. (Scortechini, Day. 

 King, No. 862.) King, No. 6,260 appears also to belong here, but 

 differs in its dull colour, and indistinct veinlets. 



(Also in New Guinea.) 



20. Pleopeltis hemiomtidea. West Munipore. 



