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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
2. WooDSiA LANOSA. [Hook.) Like hyperborea, but the frcnd 
densely ferruginous, with soft long hairs and scales, stipe also villous 
or lanate, but becoming glabrous in age. Perhaps a very tomentose 
variety of No. i. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 47. Bedd. F. B. I. t. -^^i. 
Only in Northern India — mountains of Kumaon; Pindari, 12,000 
feet; above Namik, it, 600 feet; Sikkim Lachen, 14,000 to 16,000 
feet; Mount Donkia, 18,000 feet. 
3. WooDsiA ELONGATA. {Hook) Glaudulosely pilose; fronds 
up to 12 inches long by i-ii inch broad, narrow oblong pinnate, 
pinnae rather distant alternate sessile from a broadish base, oblong 
obtuse, pinnatifid not more than half down, lobes short, rounded, 
dentate ; sori globose, much elevated ; indusium larger than the 
sorus, very membranaceous, globose, soon bursting with a lacerated 
apex, not ciliated. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 47. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 14. 
Himalayas, from Dhurmsala to Sikkim, 8,000 to 12,000 feet; 
common. 
GENUS IX.— PERANEMA. {Don) 
{Peri, around ; nema^ a thread; the sorus on a thread-like stalk.) 
Sori globose, on the back of a vein or veinlet ; indusium in- 
ferior, globose, coriaceous, pedicellate, at first enclosing the whole 
sorus, at length bursting vertically into two spreading lips ; veins 
free, forked, clavate ; fronds large, decompound. Sphaeropteris, 
Wallich. 
I. Peranema cyatheoides. {F>on.) Fronds up to 4-6 feet 
high, stipate, deltoid decompound, ultimate pinnules sessile, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, half an inch long, pinnatifid, repand, or crenate ; 
main rachis scaly or pubescent. F)o?i. Br. Fl. Nep. p. 12. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t. ^T^. Sphceroptcris barbata. Wall. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 49. 
Nepal and Bhotan, 6,000-10,000 feet; Khasya, 4,500-6,000 
feet ; Anamallays, 6,000 feet. 
