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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
East Bengal plains from Assam to Chittagong ; Khasya Hills, 
2,000 feet ; South India (Anamallay Hills) ; Birma. 
(Also in South China and Luzon.) 
6. Cheilanthes laxa. {Moore.) Stipes densely tufted, chest- 
nut coloured, shining up to 8 inches long, sparsely clothed towards 
the base with lanceolate scales ; fronds narrow-lanceolate up to 20 
inches long by 3 inches broad, bipinnate or tripinnatifid ; rachis naked, 
or nearly so ; pinnae distant, subsessile, deltoid, lower ones reduced ; 
pinnules blunt, upper adnate entire, lower free lanceolate, bluntly 
lobed, texture very thin ; surfaces naked ; dull green, slightly farinose 
beneath on the young fronds ; involucre narrow. Moore Ind. Fil. 
p. 245. Cheilanthes Thwaitesii, Mett. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 457. 
Ceylon, Kurunagalla and Kallupahane. 
7. Cheilanthes tenuifolia. (Sw.) Annual, caudex short- 
creeping, scaly ; stipes elongated, rarely scaly ; frond submembrana- 
ceous, glabrous, 3-4 inches to a span and more long, ovate acuminate, 
or more or less deltoid, subtripinnate, ultimate lobes of the primary 
and secondary divisions the largest, more or less pinnatifid ; pinnules 
elliptic, oblong or oblong-lanceolate subpinnatifid or crenate, with 
broad blunt teeth ; involucres mostly elongated, more or less con- 
fluent, more or less crenated or denticulate, sometimes transversely 
wrinkled ; stipes and rachis purple-black, main rachis winged above, 
secondary and tertiary rachises all with a narrow wing. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. \\. p. 82, /. 87^. Syn. Fil. p. 138. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 188. 
Madras Presidency, common in the plains and on low hills up 
to 4,000 feet : Bengal, plains in Assam, Chittagong, Dacca, Chota 
Nagpore ; Khasya, up to 3,500 feet; Sikkim ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in China, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Uruguay, 
and the Malay Islands.) 
8. Cheilanthes farinosa. {Kaulf.) Roots tufted ; stipes 
more or less elongated, ebeneous-glossy, deciduously scaly ; fronds 
subcoriaceous, from a span to a foot long, deltoidly lanceolate, or 
lanceolate glabrous, white and powdery beneath, pinnate, the apex 
