Fkrns of British India and Ceylon. ioi 
pinnules on the lower side much larger than the others, and 
deeply lobed with linear-oblong segments ; rachis and costa dark 
coloured and polished like the stipe ; texture herbaceous, lateral 
veins once forked; sori in broad marginal lines. Langs and Fisch. 
Ic. t. 21. Pteris geraniifolia, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 37. Pellsea geranii- 
folia, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 146. 
Western forests of the Madras Presidency, and in Ceylon up to 
4,000 feet, very common. 
(Also in Tropical America, Polynesian Islands, North China, 
Cape Colony, and the Mascareen Islands.) 
3. Pell^a Tamburii. {Hook) Stipes 6-9 inches long, erect, 
naked, chestnut-brown, polished ; fronds about 6 inches each way, 
subcoriaceous, whitened beneath, deltoid, with three principal lobes, 
the terminal one cut down nearly to the rachis into several broad 
opposite lanceolate segments, of which the upper ones are entire and 
the lower ones larger and sinuated ; lateral lobes with the segments 
on the upper side nearly entire, but those on the lower side prolonged 
and again deeply lobed, the largest entire divisions about i inch deep, 
\ inch broad at the base ; rachis polished ; indusium brownish, con- 
tinuous, but regularly crenated along the outer edge. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. p. 146 ; Sp. Fil. ii. t. 129 a. 
Tambur Valley, East Nepal, 
§§ Veins not perceptible ; i?idusiiim broad., conspicuous. 
4. Pell^a nitidula. ( Wall, under Pteris}^ Caudex short- 
creeping, stout ; stipes 2-5 inches long, very numerous and crowded, 
hispid, with subulate deciduous chaffy dark brown scales, and as well 
as the rachis (which is downy on one side) ebeneous ; fronds 3-4 or 
rarely 5 inches long, subdeltoid-oblong acuminate (sterile ones 
broader), coriaceous, shining beneath, glabrous, pinnate-pinnatifid, 
below subbipinnate ; pinnae approximate, nearly opposite, broad- 
lanceolate dimidiate (the inferior half broadest), deeply pinnatifid 
nearly to the rachis, lowest pair again subpinnate and the secondary 
pinnae pinnatifid ; lobes all oblong entire or sinuate, gradually coming 
to a sharp point, the lower base decurrent, the lowest inferior lobes 
