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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Himalayas and Khasya, 2,000-6,000 feet, very common ; South 
India, abundant on all the Western mountains and on the hills on 
the East side ; Ceylon ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 
(x^lso in the Malay Islands, China, and Mauritius.) 
Var. (j nitidula. ( Wall. Cat 392.) Stipes and rachis red, 
lower pinnae less divided, pinnules less cut ; indusium deciduous, 
jBedd. F. Sup. 374. 
Nepal to Bhotan, 9,000-12,000 feet elevation. 
Var. y OBTUSissiMA. {Mett.) Base of stipe clothed with 
light brown broad chaffy scales, lower pinnae similar to the others ; 
frond less cut, the ultimate segments broader, shorter and blunter, 
oblong to obovate. Bedd. F. Sup. 375. KuJin. Lin. 36. 
Ceylon, Nepal. 
Var. S deltoidea. {Bedd.) Fronds quite deltoid, the upper 
and lower basal pinnules being much reduced in size. Bedd. 
F. S. I. i. 248. 
Ceylon. 
Var. £ MINOR. (Thiv.) Fronds very small, often only 3 inches, 
simply pianate, the pinnse only \ inch broad, but in fructification, 
larger specimens, however, running into the smaller forms of 
deltoidea. 
Ceylon ; Simla, North Cachar. 
Var. 4 Zeylanica. {Bedd.) In texture and colour like obtu- 
sissima, but much more compound and the basal pinnules larger 
than the others, main secondary and tertiary rachises more or 
less matted with black adpressed flattish scales ; base of stipes a 
cashion-like mass of lon^ narrow golden scales. L. pulvinulifera, 
var. /3 Zeylanica. Bedd. F. Sup. p. 17. 
Ceylon, Blackpool. 
Var. x] undulata. ( TJiw) Pinnae deflexed, rachis and secon- 
dary rachis geniculate-flexuose. A very curious variety only found 
on the top of the hill over the Hackgalle Government Gardens, 
