ii8 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
crenated at their sterile apices ; basal veins uniting in pairs into an 
arch below the sinus (one generally proceeding from the costa, the 
other from the costule), and bearing 3-4 free veinlets; other veinlets 
forked, terminating in dots within the margin; indusium never reach- 
ing the base or apex of the segments. Klein. Tent, Pter. 147. t. 5. 
Pteris geminata, Wall. Cat. 2180. Hook. Syn. Fil. 164. C. 
Anamallayensis, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 45. 
Western mountains of Madras Presidency 2,000-4,500 feet; 
rather rare. United by Hooker and by Clarke with biaurita but 
really quite distinct ; its thin texture and very wavy appearance 
are very unlike any form of biaurita; its margin is, besides, 
always crenated, and the veins never reach the margin, which they 
always do in biaurita. It is one of the most beautiful ferns in the 
Madras forests, and has been for years in cultivation at Ootacamund. 
Wight's specimens from Courtallum are named geminata in the Kew 
Heibarium, and there are no specimens from N. India; there are 
specimens from Johanna Island ; also from the Isle of Mayotta, 
(collected by Lady Barkly), named by Mr. Baker Campteria maxima. 
Sp. Fil. p. 480. 
3. Campteria Wallichiana. {Ag.) Fronds ample, glabrous, sub- 
membranaceous, 3-partite, lateral branches compoundly divided, 
terminal one elongated, pinnated; pinnae numerous, sessile, 4-6 inches 
long, linear-lanceolate acuminate, deeply pinnatifid; segments hnear- 
lanceolate obtuse, sterile ones serrulate, all approximate, about \ an 
inch long ; basal veins monarcuate, the rest free and forked, rarely a 
solitary areole at the base of the costule ; stipes very long, 5-6 feet ; 
stout, rich castaneous, and, as well as the paler-coloured rachises, very 
smooth and glossy. Ag. Sp. Gen. Pter.p. 69. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. 206. 
Syn. Fil, p. 165. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 2^ and2\']. Var. quadripinnata 
( Clarke^ is a very compound for7n with the pinnce. tripinnate; it is 
probably an abnormal form or monstrosity which would not be constant. 
Himalayas from Chumba to Bhotan 3,000-8,000 feet, abundant ; 
Khasya. 
(Also in the Philippines, Java, and Samoa.) 
