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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
finely toothed, lower ones slightly stalked ; texture subcoriaceous ; 
sori roundish, numerous, contiguous round the upper and outer edge. 
Hook. Syn. Flip. 126. Bedd. F. S. I. f. 3. 
Common in the Western Hills of the Madras Presidency, 3,000- 
5,000 feet ; Ceylon up to 4,000 feet. 
(Also in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Africa and its Eastern 
Islands.) 
9. Adiantum flabellulatum. (Z.) Scales on the rhizome 
long, hnear, lax, chestnut coloured ; fronds flabellate, bipartite- 
pedately divided, tripinnate ; secondary pinnae lanceolate-acuminated ; 
pinnules glabrous, subcoriaceous-chartaceous, obliquely cuneate or 
semi-orbicular-cuneate, superior base truncate, superior margin 2-4 
lobed and serrate-dentate in the sterile one ; lobes soriferous ; involu- 
cres large, the breadth of the lobe, oblong, straight, rarely a little 
curved, hard coriaceous ; stipes elongated ebeneous-scabrous below ; 
the rest, as well as the slender rachis, glossy and glabrous. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. ii. 30. Linn. Sp. Fil. p. 1558. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 126. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t 218. 
Nepal, Assam, Khasya, Sylhet ; Ceylon, in the Ouvah district ; 
he Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Milay Islands, South China and Japan.) 
GENUS XXIV.— CHEILANTHES. {Swartz) 
(Cheilos, lip or margin; anthos, flower; the fructification on the margin). 
Sori terminal, or nearly so, on the veins, at first small subglobose, 
afterwards more or less confluent ; indusium formed of the changed 
reflexed margin, roundish and distinct, or more or less confluent, but 
not quite continuous ; fronds subcoriaceous in texture, mostly under 
12 inches, often under 6 inches long, 3-4-pinnatifid ; veins free. 
I. Cheilanthes fragrans. {Swartz.) Stipes csespitose, wiry, 
t-3 inches long, densely clothed with reddish-brown Unear scales ; 
fronds 2-3 inches long, about i inch broad, ovate-acuminate, bi- or 
tripinnatifid ; pinnye opposite, i-f inch long, i-| inch broad, deltoid, 
cut down to the rachis below into several sinuate-pinnatifid linear- 
