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Fronds herbaceous, pinnate or pinnato-pinnatifid. Rhizome thickish decumbent or erect and sub-arboresccnt. (Moore.) 
1. Stegnogramma aspidioides. (Hook.) Fronds hairy on both sides, especially the veins, ovato-lanceolate acuminated, pinnate 
firm -membranaceous, pinnre opposite or alternate, sessile sub-truncate or adnate, at the base 3-4 inches long, rarely an inch wide, oblohgo- 
lanceolate, lobato-pinnatifid. Veins 5 or 6 pair, 3 lower united, with an excurrent spurious vein reaching to the sinus, those in the lobes 
free, all soriferous, sori linear-oblong, nearly the length of the veins. Hooh. bp. Fil. v. lbO.~Bl. F'd. Jav., p. 172. — Phegopteris Steguo- 
gramme. Met ten. 
Ceylon. (Gardner No. 1292.) / have not been able topirocure a specimen of this species, it is not in Mr. Thwaites' List. 
POLYPODIEyE. 
PoLYPODiUM. (See page 54). 
1. PoJypodium Walkertx. (Hook). Stipes 1 to li foot and more long, .stout, densely paleaceous at the base with ovate 
acuminate pale brown glossy scales, mixed with slender linear setaceous ones, which latter often continue up the rachis ; fronds ample, 2h 
feet and more long, 6 inches to 1 foot and more broad, firm coriaceous, oblong lanceolate, pinnated with the pinnae nearly entire (normal 
form) more or less deeply pinnatifid, (varieties /3 and y) or pinnate with the pinnules deeply pinnatifid, (sub-bi-pinnate) (variety 5) costa 
of the pinna3 beneath often furnished with setaceous scales ; veins copious, fasciculato-pinnate, sori dorsal upon the veinlets in 2 or more 
lines between the costa and margin. Ilool:. Sp. Fil. iv, 233. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 1256, 3276, 3286), a very variable species. 
PLATE No. CQXXXIN.— Normal form. 
PLATE No. CCXXXV. B. Varielij ^ marcrocarpum. Fronds very large, pinnate with the pinna3 pinnatifid 3-rd to § of the way 
down to the rachis, and often furnished with a large auricle at the superior base. Sori very large. 
PLATE No. CCXXXV. C. Variety y jnnnatifidum. Pinnas pinnatifid almost to the rachis, leaving only a broad wing along the 
rachis, lower pinnae sometimes pinnate. 
PLATE No. CCXXXV. D. Variety S bi-pinnatum. Pinnae, sub-bi-pinnate. (C P. 3286) a species dist. ? Thwaites En. 
2. Polypodium rufescens, (Blume.) Caudex creeping, furnished with appressed scales and wiry roots, stipes 8 to 16 inches long, 
and together with the main and partial rachises slightly asperous, fronds sub-coriaceous, puberulous beneath with minute yellow hairs, 
bi-tri-pinnatifid, i. e., lower pair of pinnre often bi-pinnatifid, upper ones pinnatifid pinnules oblong obtuse, spinuloso-serrate, veins pinnate, 
veinlets simple or forked, reaching to the margin. Sori medial on the veinlets. JjI. Fil. Jav. p. 194. t. 91. — Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, 257. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3143.) 
PLATE No. CCXXXVL 
3. Polypodium Zeylanicum. (Mett.) Caudex creeping, as thick as a duck's quill, rooting, branched, clothed with sphagneous scales, 
stipites scattered but approximate, |-1 inch long, black patently hispid, fronds 6-10 inches long, ^rd of an inch wide, sub-membranaceo- 
coriaceous, sub-pellucid, linear-lanceolate repando-dentate, especially in the upper half glabrous or sub-ciliate, and with the remains of hairs 
here and there on the surface, sharply acuminated, below gradually attenuated into the stipes, costa rather slender, slightly prominent 
on both sides, veins rather distant, moderately patent, once forked near or above the middle not extending to the magin, upper branch 
bearing the sorus chiefly in the upper half of the frond, obliquely patent in a line half way between the costa and the margin, and a little 
distant from each other. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv, im.—Metten. Polypod. p. 38.— Grammitis Zeylanica, Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 234. 
Ceylon. (C. P. 3074.) 
PLATE nJ. CCXXXVIL 
Polypodium decorum. (Brack.) Caudex short, rather thick, creeping densely ferrugineo-squamose, stipites approximate, sub- 
terminal on the caudex, 2-4 lines long, 5-I inch broad, narrow-lonceolate much and almost caudato-acuminate, the base very gradually 
attenuated into the short stipes deeply and nearly to -the rachis pinnatifid, segments horizontally patent, narrow-oblong obtuse, quite 
