12 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
vary from quite or nearly quite glabrous to as pubescent as those 
from Sikkim, and the Penang specimens seem quite identical. 
2. Alsophila glauca. {J. Sm.) A lofty tree fern ; more or 
less prickly; fronds subcoriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; pinnae 
2-3 feet long, pinnules 4-5 inches long, J to i inch broad, deeply,nearly 
to the costa pinnatifid; segments linear-oblong subfalcate, when 
fertile often contracted, entire or distantly crenulate ; veins forked, 
and often three-branched ; receptacle naked or hairy. /. Sm. in 
Hook. Joiir. Bot. iii. 419. Bedd. F. B. J. t. 86 (as A. Brunoniana). 
Alsophila contaminans, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 41. Chnoophora glauca, 
Bl. En. Fil. Jav. 443. 
Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam, Khasya, Cachar, Sylhet, Chittagong, 
Burmah and Malay Peninsula, up to 4,000 feet. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
3. Alsophila ornata. {J. Scoti.) A lofty tree fern ; stipes 
paleaceous at the base, slightly muricated, and, as well as the main 
rachises, glossy purplish-brown ; fronds herbaceous-membranaceous; 
primary pinnae oblong- lanceolate, rather abruptly contracted into a 
short, deeply pinnatifid apex; pinnules nearly all petiolate lanceolate, 
oblong acuminate, deeply, nearly to the costa pinnatifid ; segments 
ovate in the sterile, narrow oblong in the fertile, slightly falcate, 
serrated ; costa of the pinnules somewhat hairy above and scaly 
below ; veinlets forked or a few three-branched. /. Scoit, in Trans. 
Lin. Sjc , XXX. 36, f. 16 a. Bedd, F. B. I. t. 342 
Sikkim, on the banks of the Rungbee, below the Government 
Cinchona plantatioi, at 2,500 feet elevation, called Dang pashin by 
the Lepchas. 
4. Alsophila Andersoni. {J. Scott) A tall tree fern; stipes 
muricated and rough, clothed more or less with lanceolate subulate 
deciduous scales ; rachises tawny villous below, somewhat scabrous 
above ; fronds ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous-membranaceous, pilose ; 
primary p'nnae oblong-lanceolate acuminate ; pinnules pinnatifid 
nearly to the rachis with an attenuated serrated apex; segments 
broad-oblong, slightly falcate, sharply serrated ; veinlets simple or 
