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Pteris, ( Continued.) 
7. Fteris geraniifolia. (Raddi.) Small glabrous, root csespitose, fronds cordiform ternate and pedate, subcoriaceous opaque 
primary lobes broad-lanceolate pinnatifid or usually bi-pinnatifid tenninal segments ovato-lanceolate entire, and as well as the sinuses, 
acute, stipites elongated and as well as the main rachises ebeneous. Hook. Sp. Fil, ii, 132, Eaddi. Fil, Brasil, n. 110 — Pellaea geranice- 
folia, Fee. Gen. Fil. p. ISO— Fteris Pohlimia, Fresl. Tent. p. lib— Pteris pedata. Kze. in Linncea X. p. 522 (7iot Linn. J— Ft. jjeda- 
toides, Desv.—Pt. Mijsorensis Heyne in Wall. Cat. n. 87— Pteris Concolor. Langsd.et Fisch. 
Very common on the western side of the presidency up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 
PLATE No. XXXVII. 
8. Pteris jKllucida, (Presl.) 1^ to ,3 feet high — Caudex, short, thick scarcely creeping, frond, a foot and more long, sometimes 
quite simple, broad-lanceolate, generally ternate or pinnate, ovate in circumscription, coriaceo-membranaceous, bright green, lucid, pinnse 
3 to ll or more, generally broad (1 to Ih inch) 6-10 inches long, entire or subserrated at the very acuminated apex, the margin often 
crisped sessile or the upper ones sometimes decurrent generally all entire or lowest pair bipartite, veins simple or forked, close, almost 
horizontal, involucres quite marginal, narrow, stipes very variable in length, stramineous or tawny, smooth or subscabrous. Hooker. Sp. 
Fil. ii. p. 161,— Presl. Eeliq. Hcenk, p. 55.— Ft. nervosa? Wall. Cat. n. 96 (not Thunb.j-Pt. crispata. Wall. MS. Ft. serrata. 
Wall. MS. 
Anamallay forests 2000 to 4000 feet elevation. 
(Perhaps a variety of Pteris Cretica). 
PLATE No. XXXVIII. 
9. Pteris Cretica (Linn) a foot and a half high, caudex short, thick, subrepent, frond often a foot long broad-ovate more or less 
acuminate, firm, coriaceo-membranaceous, bright green, glossy, pinnae 3 or 14 on each side, rather remote, a finger's length to a span long, 
sterile ones lanceolate, fertile ones linear-lanceolate, acuminate sometimes very much so, sessile or the upper ones more or less decurrent 
lowest pair and often 2 or 3 or more pairs above them bi-tri-(or more) partite, or pinnated, the segments mostly on the lower half, sterile 
portions strongly spinuloso-serrated, (rarely obtusely serrated or subentire) veins simple or forked, close, almost horizontal, involucres 
quite marginal, narrow, stipes generally longer than the frond, and the rachises stramineous or pale brown smooth or minutely rough upon 
the surface. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 159.— Zi/m. Mant. p. 130.— semiserrata. Forsk.—Pt. la;ta. Wall. Cat. 95.— Ft. heterophyllus-Poir.—Pf. 
serraria Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 96.— Ft. pentaphylla. Willd.—Pt. nervosa, Thunh.—Pt. vittata. Bory in Belany. Voy.—Pt. multiaurita. Ag. 
Pter. p. 12 (taller form and more nuinerous pinncej — Ft. triphylla Mart. et. Gal. p. 51. 
Very common on the higher ranges of the Anamallays, Pulnies and Nilgiris. 
PLATE No. XXXIX. 
10. Ft. Hookeriana. (Agardh)? Up to 3 feet high, stipe nearly 2 feet smooth, trisulcate, frond pinnate, broad-ovate to sub- 
rotund in circumscription, firm, coriaceo-membranaceous, pinnae alternate, 5 — 6 on each side, upper ones sessile and simple, lower ones 
petiolulate pinnatid, or pinnatifid, sterile portions serrated, fertile pinn^ generally fructified to nearly the apex, but in some pinnae only 
the lower portion is fructified and contracted. 
Malabar and Cochin — rare, 
(I do not known whether I am correct in referring this fern to P. Hookeriana of Agardh. It is scarcely a form of Pt. Cretica. 
I have a specimen of the same species, but much larger than the one here figured, from Mr. Thwaites from Ceylon, marked C. P. 1329.) 
PLATE No. XL. 
11. Pteris Otaria (Beddome) Caudex short, erect, frond oblong, coriaceo-membranaceous, below glabrous, above furnished with 
a few hairs on the costa, pinnate, pinnae 5 — 6 pair, the upper pair generally undivided, the others irregularly pinnatifid about the centre, 
the apex prolonged into a long tail-like acumination, undivided at the base, but there furnished with a long tail-like segment which is 
obsolete in the upper pinnae and gradually larger in the lower ones, and pinnatifid in the lowest pair, sterile apex of the pinnae and pin- 
nules serrated. 
Slopes below Puntaloor Wynad (Malabar). 
PLATE No, XLI. 
