94 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
elongate-lanceolate tripinnatifid ; pinnse 8-10 pairs, the lower ones 
distant, inch long, more than i inch broad, deltoid; pinnules on 
the lower side the largest, sometimes i inch long oblong-lanceolate, 
cut down to the rachis below into oblong lobes ; texture herbaceous, 
upper surface naked, lower villose, especially on the costa ; involucre 
continuous, slightly crenulate, not fimbriate on the margin. HooJz. 
Syn. Fil. p. 137 ; Sp. Fil. ii. /. 87, t. 98 B. Bedd. F B. I. t. 142. 
Clarke, F N. I. p. 456. 
Mr. Clarke says that the involucre is that of Pelloea, to which 
genus this might be referred. 
N. W. Himalayas, Palur Valley, and Kitghur, near Simla. 
10. Cheilanthes albo-marginata. {Clarke.) Rhizome with 
tufts of hair-pointed scales^ stipes up to 10 inches, shorter or 
longer than the frond ; glabrous, reddish-brown, shining, furnished, 
particularly below and when young, with lanceolate white-mar- 
gined scales ; fronds deltoid to deltoid-lanceolate, when very young 
completely covered beneath with lanceolate brown scales, and with 
yellowish or whitish powder, in age glabrous except the partial 
rachises and costa, which are scaly; lowest pair of pinnae half deltoid, 
arid with their lower pinnules much more developed than in the 
others (as in farinosa) ; involucres lacerate on the margins, Clarke, 
F. N. I. p. 456, /. 52. Perhaps only a form of farinosa. 
N. W. Himalayas, Kashmir, Basaoli, 5,000 feet; Dalhousie, 
6,000 feet; Simla, 7,000 feet; Gurwhal, 2,000-9,000 feet. 
11. Cheilanthes rufa. {Don.) Stipes tufted, up to 6 inches 
long, densely clothed with rusty brown, woolly tomentum; fronds 6-10 
inches long, bipinnatifid, from deltoid with the lower pinnae much 
developed (like farinosa) to lanceolate with the lower pinnae dwindling 
down ; whole frond woolly beneath, with crisped hairs ; texture herba- 
ceous, white powder present below on the young fronds ; involucre 
ciliated. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 16. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 141. Bedd. 
F. B. I.t. 144. 
Very near the last species, only tomentose. I have some speci- 
mens from Gurwhal, I hardly know which to refer to, the tomentum 
