Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 93 
pinnatifid, acuminate, pinnae mostly lanceolate pinnatifid, the one or 
two lowermost pair more or less half deltoid bipinnatifid below; 
involucres brown, scariose, rounded, sometimes confluent, and then 
waved or lobed, the margin entire or toothed and jagged. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. \\.p. 77; Syn. Fil. p. 142. Bedd. F. S. I. t. and 192 {bullosa). 
Throughout North India, in the hills up to 5,000 feet ; Madras 
Presidency, in the plains and up to 8,000 feet on the hills ; Ceylon ; 
Birma. 
(Also in Tropical America, Java, Philippines, East Africa and its 
Islands, and Arabia.) 
Var. /3 Dalhousi/e. {Hook.) Pinnae (even when young) 
without hairs, scales or powder underneath ; involucres deeply crenu- 
late tooihed or lacerate on the margin. Clarke, F. N. I. p. 459, ana 
/. 51. P. Dalhousice, Hook. Sp. Fil. \\. p. 10 ; Syn. Fil. p. 137. 
West Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon, 6,000-9,000 feet, 
Sikkim, Lachen, 10,000 feet. 
Var. y FLAcciDA. Ultimate pinnules very flaccid, and generally 
broader than in the type, the white powder sparse on young fronds, 
altogether absent on mature ones ; stipes and rachis weak and often 
wavy. Cheilanthes Dalhousiae, Bedd. F. S. I. f. 1^2. 
Nilgiris, in woods near Makoorty Peak, 7,000 feet, Anamallays, 
open grassy places on Ponachy Hill, 6,000 feet. 
Var. h CHRYSOPHYLLA. Powdcr beneath of a bright golden 
colour ; fronds with quite the outline of typical farinosa, but smaller. 
Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 95, fig. I. Cheil. argentea var. chrysophylla, 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 142. 
Khasya, 5,000 feet; Cheilanthes argentea var. sulphurea, Clarke, 
F. N. I. p. 458, is only the young undeveloped frond of this. 
9. Cheilanthes subvillosa. {Hook.) Stipes densely tufted, 
^-4 inches long, polished, naked, bright chestnut coloured, rather 
brittle, clothed with lanceolate acuminate scales below, main rachis 
glabrous beneath, the partial rachises with crisped woolly salmon- 
coloured hairs beneath ; fronds 6-1 2 inches long, 2-3 inches broad, 
