204 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
1 2-1 8 inches^ long, 2-4 J inch broad, pinnate, not or only slightly 
attenuated at the base; pinnae numerous, subsessile, oblong or 
narrowly oblong, auricular falcate, coriaceous, entire, or pinnatifid 
with the auricle sometimes quite free, lower veinlets in groups of 
threes ; sori in two rows one on each side of the midrib, very 
variable in size; indusium often quite absent. Lin7i. Sj), PL 1548. 
Hook. Syn. FiL 251. 
Throughout India and Ceylon. 
(Also in Formosa.) 
Type. Pinnae submembranaceous, lanceolate falcate, 2-2^ 
inches long, serrate; upper base square, parallel with rachis and often 
auricled, lower base much cut away ; involucre very fugacious or gene- 
rally altogether absent. Hook. Sp. FiL iv. 1 1, /. 218. Bedd. F. S. I. 
t. 120. Polypodium harpophyllum (Zenker), Hook. Syn. FiL 511. 
Nilgiris, Pulneys and other Western hills ; Madras Presidency, 
at the higher elevations. 
Var. j3 MARGINATUM. {JVa/L) Pinnae very coriaceous, 
shining, scaly below, ovate-oblong, closely spinulose, often somewhat 
lobed ; indusium conspicuous, sometimes very large. JValL Cat. 
366. Don. Prod. FL Nep. 3. Bedd. Sup. Ferns, t. 363. Clarke ^ 
F.N. I. 507. 
North India ; Kunawur to Bhotan, 7,000-10,000 feet elevation. 
Var. y ccESPiTosuM. ( IValL) Pinnae short, ovate-oblong, 
margin scarcely spinulose or serrate, sometimes entire ; texture 
scarcely coriaceous ; indusium conspicuous, ciliate. IVall. Cat. 
367. P. coespitosum, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 33. Aspid. obUquum, Don. 
Prod. FL Nep. 3. Clarke, /. ^. 507. 
Khasya, 3,000-4,500 feefc elevation. Himalayas, Bhotan to 
Kunawur, 4,000-8,000 feet. 
Var. ^ LENTUM. {Don.) Pinnae pinnatifid, serrate, usually 
spinulose, the auricle often nearly free. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 4. 
Var. sub-bipinnata (Hook.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 136. 
Throughout the Himalayas and Khasya, altitude 1,500-8,000 
feet, very common. 
