ii6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
inner obsolete. Hook. Syn. Fil p. 163. Linn. Sp. pi. ic^t,2>' ^^dd. 
F. S. I. t 42. 
Throughout India, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula on the 
mountains, 2,000-8,000 feet elevation. 
(Also throughout the whole world, except the Arctic zones and 
temperate South America.) 
Var. /3 EscuLENTA. Ultimate segments distant, linear and elon- 
gated. Moulmein and the Malay Peninsula southwards. 
GENUS XXIX.— CAMPTERIA. (Presl.) 
{Jiamptos, arched ; the lowest veins meeting and forming an arch.) 
As in Pteris, but the lowest veinlets from the base of the vein 
or costule of each segment united with the veinlet from the next 
costule, and forming long arches along the costa of the pinnae ; upper 
veinlets free. 
1. Campteria biaurita. (Linn, under Pteris.) Quite similar 
to Pteris quadriaurita, except that the costules of the segments are 
connected by a long arching veinlet ; the pinnae are generally less 
deeply divided, and the plant is generally larger and coarser, but 
these two latter differences cannot be relied on. Linn. Sp. PI. 1534, 
under Pteris. Llook. Syn. Fil. p. 164. Bedd. F, S. L. t. 44. 
Western parts of Madras Presidency up to 6,000 feet; not 
common. Pretty general throughout Northern India from the plains 
up to 6,000 feet. Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Malay Islands, China, tropical Africa, and Australia.) 
2. Campteria Kleiniana. {Fresl.) 4-6 feet high; fronds very 
large, sub-membranaceous, pedately ovate, pinnate; pinnae sub-sessile 
lanceolate witli a long acumination; lowest pair with two large pinnae 
descending from the lower margin of the costa; all the pinnae deeply 
pinnatifid (leaving a broad margin on each side of the costa) ; 
segments falcate oblong, sterile ones broadly crenated, and fertile ones 
