26 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
lower pinnae 4-8 inches long, lanceolate, pinnules quite distinct, 
i-i^ inches long, the lower ones cut down nearly 
to the rachis into numerous pinnatifid oblong del- 
toid segments ; sori 2-6 to the lower segments ; 
indusium cup-shaped, subglobose. JVa//. Cat. 
Dicksonia, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 54. Dennstaedtia 
deltoidea, Bedd. F. S. /. /. 258, 
Ceylon, central provinces ; Himalayas, Kumaon 
to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet; Khasya, 4,000-6,000 
feet ; Birma and the Malay Peninsula generally, very 
common. 
2. Dennst^dtia Elwesii. {Baker, imder Pa- 
tania.) Fronds lanceolate, tripinnatifid, i-ii foot 
long ; rachis stramineous glabrous ; pinnae lanceolate, 
nearly sessile, 3-4 inches long, f— J inch broad, the 
rachis flattened ; pinnules 20-30-jugate, lanceolate, 
sessile cuneate at the base, i \-2 lines broad, deeply 
pinnatifid ; segments ligulate, erecto-patent, many 
entire parallel, lowest on the upper side often bifid, both sides 
glabrous ; veins solitary in the centre of each segment ; sorus 
covering the entire apex of the segmeLt. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 54. 
Bedd. Suppl. to Ferns, t. 347. 
Sikkim, near Lachen, 8,500 feet; Choongtam, 9,000 feet. 
3. Dennst^dtia appendiculata. {Wall, under Dicksonia^ 
Fronds oblong or lanceolate, bipinnate, 12-18 inches long, 6 inches 
broad ; rachis hairy ; pinnae close together, their rachises parallel, 
lower ones linear-lanceolate, 3-4 inches long, cut do^n to the rachis ; 
pinnules linear-oblong, \ inch long, 2 lines broad, pinnatifid into 
linear segments, under surface glandulosely pilose; sori 2-6 to 
a pinnule placed at the base of the sinuses ; indusium cup- 
shaped, globose. Wall. Cat. 65. Dicksonia (Patania) appendiculata. 
Hook, Syn, Fil. p. 54. Bedd. F. B. L t. ^2. 
Senchal above Darjeeling, 8,500 feet ; Lachen Valley, in Sikkim, 
Nepal ; Kumaon Gori Valley, 5,500 feet ; Banks of the Vishnugunga, 
above Panchkisar, 8,000-9,000 feet. 
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SCABRA. ( IVall.) 
