46 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
the top ; lower pinnae 2-3 inches long, erect-patent, ovate or lan- 
ceolate-rhomboidal cut down the rachis ; pinnules deeply pinnatifid 
with deeply toothed or pinnatifid linear lobes, texture subcoriaceous, 
colour dark green, nearly black when dry, nearly naked, often slightly 
crisped ; sori 2-16 to a pinnule, small axillary, the tube more or less 
exserted, the mouth slightly dilated. Hook. Syn. Fil p. 86. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. 8. 
Common in the moist forests on the western mountains of the 
Madras Presidency. 2,000-4,000 feet elevation, and in Ceylon and 
the Malay Peninsula. 
(Aho in tropii-al America and the West Indies, Polynesian 
Islands, New Zealand, Japan, South China, South Africa, Angola, 
Fernando Po, and the Mascareen Islands.) 
TRIBE IV.— DAVALLIE^. 
Sori marginal or submarginal, roundish, covered by a reniform 
or suborbicular, squamiform indusium, which is open at the apex, 
fastened broadly at the base, open or free at the sides. 
GENUS XIV.— HUMATA. {Cav.) 
{Hiimatos^ humid, in opposition to Adianium) 
Sori intra- or sub- marginal, globose, indusium coriaceous subor- 
bicular or reniform, attached by a broad base, the apex and sides 
free ; fronds articulated upon the rhizome, coriaceous, small usually 
deltoid, more or less dimorphous, the barren ones less cut ; veins 
always free, rhizome creeping, growing on trees or rocks. 
I. HuMATA HETEROPHYLLA. {Smith) Rhizome widc-crceping, 
scaly \ frond shortly stalked, 3-6 inches long, i inch broad, 
glabrous ; the sterile ones ovate-lanceolate entire or slightly lobed at 
the base, the fertile ones narrower, deeply sinuate-pinnatifid ; sori 
2-ic to a lobe. Hook. Syn. Fil. 88. Bedd. F. B. /. /. 100. 
Singapore, Penang, and the Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Polynesian Islands.) 
