Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
texture coriaceous ; rachis densely scaly and tomentose, with surfaces 
nearly naked ; veins not visible ; sori in broad marginal lines, soon 
hiding the narrow involucre. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 151. Bedd. F. S. 
I. t. 22 (under Platyloma). 
Nilgiris, Anamallays, and elsewhere on the Western mountains 
of the Madras Presidency, 2,000-4,000 feet elevation, Malay Penin- 
sula ; Ceylon, Telgamma. 
(Also in Austraha and New Zealand.) 
7. Pell/ea calomelanos. (Link.) Glabrous, caudex short, 
thick, very scaly ; fronds csespitose, subcoriaceous, oblong-triangular, 
bipinnate, pinnules all petiolulate, cordate- 
(rarely subhastate-) triangular, very obtuse, 
entire, sometimes subtrilobate or sinuate 
at the margin ; the sinus deep and narrow; 
veins dichotomously radiated ; sori con- 
tinuous ; involucres membranaceous; stipes 
short, scaly at the base, and as well as the 
slender rachises and petioles black-ebe- 
neous, very glossy. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. /. 
140. Link. Fil. Hort. Berol. p. 61. Hook. 
Syn. Fil. p. 152. Pteris calomelanos, 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 22. 
N. W. 'Himalayas, below Almora, 4,000 feet, Tikri in Sirraow, 
5,000-6,000 feet. 
(Also in Af:ica, from Abyssinia to Cape of Good Hope.) 
GENUS XXVni.— PTERIS. {Linn.) 
(From pteryx, a wing; the supposed likeness to wings in the branches 
of the common Pteris aqidllna or Bracken.) 
Sori marginal, linear, continuous, occupying a slender filiform 
receptacle in the axis of the indusium ; indusium the same shape as 
the sorus, usually membranous, at first quite covering it, at length 
more or less spreading. 
PELL^A FALCATA. {Fee.) 
Base of frond. 
