Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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oblong lobes ; texture subcoriaceous ; rachis polished but slightly 
scaly, both surfaces green and naked ; sori small, copious ; involucre 
light brown, membranaceous, toothed. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 134; Sp. 
Fil. ii. 81. Polypodium fragrans (Linn.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 338. 
Murree, 4,000-5,000 feet; Mountains of Kashmir; Kishtwar, 
3,500-5,000 feet. 
(Also in Cabul, and all round the Mediterranean, Canaries, 
Madeira.) 
2. Cheilanthes Szovitzii. {Fisch and Meyer) Stipes densely 
tufted, erect, wiry, polished, brown, thinly coated, as is the rachis, 
with spreading woolly hairs and linear scales ; fronds 3-6 inches long, 
i-t| inch broad, ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate to tripinnate ; pinnae in 
opposite pairs, the lower ones deltoid ; pinnules linear-oblong, con- 
tiguous, cut down to the rachis below into small round bead-like 
segments, J inch in diameter, subcoriaceous, above green slightly 
tomentose, below covered with white woolly hairs, which arise from 
the sori, the margins much incurved ; sori copious, marginal. Fisch 
and Meyer in Bull. Soc. Mo sc. 1838,/. 241. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 139. 
Bedd F. B. 1. t 145. 
Kashmir and Baltistone, 5,000-7,000 feet, common ; Kulu. 
(Also in Cabul, Asia Minor, Persia, and South Europe.) 
3. Cheilanthes mysorensis. ( Wallich.) Roots densely 
caespitose, the fibres very woolly, stipes slightly scaly below, short, 
1-2 inches, and as well as the main rachises, deep glossy-ebeneous, 
rigid ; fronds a span or more long, in outline narrow oblong, acute, 
tapering below by the diminishing of the pinnae, glabrous, membrana- 
ceous but firm, bipinnate ; lower pinnae very small, all of them oblong- 
ovate, sessile, frequently opposite pinnate below, the upper half pin- 
natifid ; pinnules or segments linear-oblong, plane (much incurved if 
dried without pressure), toothed or lobate-pinnatifid, each tooth or 
lobe bearing one or two subconflaent, small, whitish, suborbicular sori. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. ii./. 94; Syn. Fil. p. 135. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 190. 
South India, common in dry, rocky places in the plains and 
lower slopes of the hills ; Ceylon, at low elevations. 
(Also in China and Japan.) 
