PLEOPELTIS. (See Ferns of Southern India, p. 57. 



1 PLEOPELTIS LONGIFOLIA (Mefcten.) Caudex horizontal, creeping, thick squamose, stipites approximate, 2-3 inches long, 

 fronds 1 2 3 feet long Ml inch wide, thick, camoso-coriaceous, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, gradually long-attenuated 

 below on the stipes, entire, the margins sub-revolute, venation internal, very indistinct, costules veniform united by transverse veins into 

 rather lar*e areoles then into irregular lesser ones, which include free veinlets, sori compital oblong, forming a line or senes near he 

 margin rather close-placed, sunk into the substance of the frond, and forming a corresponding elevated line on the upper surface capsules 

 mixed with long-stipitate scales.-ifoo*. Sp. Fil. v. 60-Metten. Polyp, p. 87 ;-Grammitis longifolia, Bl. En. Fd. Jav., p. 119, and 

 Pleopeltis in Add., and Gr. decurrens and Pleopeltis decurrens, Bl. II. cc. ;— Polyp, contiguum, Wall. n. 285 ?-Hook Ic. PI. x. t. 987, 

 (or Cent, of Ferns t. 87), Fil. Exot. t. 20 ;— Phymatodes and Drynaria revoluta, /. Sm. ;— Paragramma, Blums and Moore Ind. Fil. xxrii. 



Mr. Moore adopts Blume's former name and places this fern amongst the Tcenitidea, tvith which it certainly has some affinity. 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein (Rev. C. S. P. Parrish). 



Hab. Malay Islands and Peninsula, Java, Birmah, Luzon, Singapore, Mergui. 



PLATE No. VII. 



