Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 129 
more strongly at the apex, white and almost powdery beneath, green 
above with a tinge of red ; veins copious, compact, simple and forked; 
ultimate short pinnae confluent into a pinnatifid and lobed caudate 
apex, fertile pinnae narrow-linear obtuse erect-patent on very short 
petioles, which sometimes bear a gland beneath ; sori and involucres 
as in other Plagiogyri^. Bl. En. FiL I. p. 204. Lomaria (Plagiogyria) 
glauca. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 22. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 90. 
Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation. {Probably only a variety of 
pycnophylla.) 
(Also in Java.) 
3. Plagiogyria pycnophylla. {Kunze.) Caudex stout, erect, 
very woody, and having many wiry roots; fronds fascicled; stipes sub- 
quadrangular 2 -furrowed in front (as is the rachis), at the base dilated 
fleshy, triquetrous, bearing spongy glands; fronds 1-2 and more feet 
long, sterile ones, sub-chartaceous opaque, brown when dry, oblong- 
ovate pinnated for its whole length, except that the small terminal 
ones are confluent into a lobed (or pinnatifid) and finely acuminate 
and serrated apex, pinnae horizontally patent sessile or very nearly 
so, numerous, approximate, narrow oblong-lanceolate very finely 
almost caudately acuminate, the base very obtuse and truncate 
(neither dilated nor contracted), at the base beneath furnished with 
one or two prominent glands (sometimes wanting); the marg'n very 
minutely serrulate, the caudate apex strongly serrated ; veins nume- 
rous, closely placed, simple and forked ; fertile fronds narrower pin- 
natetl ; pinnae linear obtuse on very short petioles with a gland on 
the under side ; involucre at first vaulted, conspicuoys, membrana- 
ceous, brown, at length forced back by the capsules. Kze. in Bot. 
Zdt. lY. p. 143. Book. Sp. Fil. iii. 21. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 52. 
Nepal and Bhotan, 6,000-11,000 feet; very common at 7,000- 
8,000 feet. Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Java.) 
4. Plagiogyria euphlebia. {Kunze.) Caudex stout woody 
elongated ; stipes i foot or more long, naked erect, tri(|uetrous below, 
10 
