i6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
North Arcot and Cuddapa Hills, Jeypore, &c., and probably general 
through the northern Circars in moist shady places on the hills ; 
Himalayas, very common in Sikkim, Nepal, &c. ; Burmah and 
Ceylon. 
(Also in the Malay Islands and S. China.) 
The hairs of the rachis are exaggerated in my figure quoted above. 
9. Alsophila crinita. {Hook.) A lofty tree fern ; stipes 
and mam rachis stramineous, brown, hispid-paleaceous, and 
strongly muricate ; spines short, tipped with a black gland; fronds 
subcoriaceous ; rachises above pilose, beneath and on the costae 
densely paleaceous-crinite ; scales sometimes short and minute, 
generally elongate and adpressed; primary pinnae 2 feet long, 10 inches 
wide ; pinnules oblong acuminate, sessile pinnatifid neaily to the 
costules ; lobes narrow-oblong, sub-obtuse, falcate, the margins 
recurved, serrated ; costa and veins often pilose; veinlets forked; sori 
covering the whole under side of the lobes mixed with ciliate 
scales. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 42. Bedd. F. S. 1. 1. 59. 
Nilgiris, Pulneys, and Anamallays, 5,000-7,000 ft. elevation. 
Ceylon central provinces. By far the most beautiful of all the tree 
ferns. 
10. Alsophila albo-setacea. {Bedd.) Main rachis purplish, 
muricated, and (in age) only slightly scaly; pinnae long petioled ; 
rachis of pinnae very scaly ; pinnules with the one-two lowest 
segments free, the rest cut down nearly to the rachis, oblong sub- 
falcate, slightly crenate ; veinlets all forked from near the base, one 
branch often (or both rarely) again forked ; costse sparingly clothed 
beneath with long white setaceous hairs, which are also present in 
a less degree on the costa and costules above ; costules beneath 
furnished with deciduous buHate scales, which often have a hyaline 
setaceous point at the apex ; sori copious. Bedd. S^tpplint. to Ferns, 
p. 2 (not figured). 
Nicobar Islands (Kurz). 
