loo Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
N°5I 
PELL.'EA STELLERI 
{Gmd.) 
I. PELLiEA Stelleri. {Giiielin under Fteris.) Rhizome wiry, 
creeping ; stipes scattered, slender, 2-3 
inches long, naked, straw-coloured or pale- 
brown, polished, furnished about the base 
with few linear pale brown scales ; fronds 
2-4 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, ovate 
bi-tripinnatifid, often with the lowest pinnae 
barren, the upper fertile ; pinnse lanceolate- 
deltoid, 1-2 inches long, cut down to the 
rachis ; lower pinnule again sometimes 
slightly divided ; texture thinly herbaceous 
or flaccid ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; 
veins visible ; young sori subterminal on the 
veins, clustered, not forming a marginal line 
till old ; indusium broad, continuous, mem- 
branous. Pellsea gracilis. Hook. Syn. Fil. 
p. 145. Clarke^ F. N. I. p. 460. Allosorus 
73- 
Himalayas, Baltic, 9,000 
feet, Kumaon, Champua, 10,000 
feet, Kashmir, Pir Punjul, 
11,000 feet; Karakorum, 
11,000-13,000 feet. 
(Also in Canada and North 
United States.) 
2. Pell^a concolor. 
{Langs and Fisch. under Fteris.) 
Stipes 6-9 inches long, naked, 
erect, wiry, brownish black, po- 
lished, slightly scaly towards the 
base; fronds 2-4 inches each way, 
deltoid, cut down nearly to the 
rachis into 3-4-pinn8e on each 
side, of which the lowest pair is 
much the largest, with the 
;racilis (Rup ), Bedd. F. B. I. /. 
ELL^A CONCOLOR. {Langs and Fisch.) 
