2S8 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Presl. Tent Pter. p. 78. Hook. Sp. Fil iv. 158. Aspid. Wallichii, 
Hook. Ex. Fl. \. p. 6. /. 5. Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 265. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 
4. Oleandra Cumingii. ( y . Sm.) Caudex creeping, scarcely 
so thick as a writing pen, clothed with close-pressed subulate imbri- 
cated scales, stipes subterminal and subaggregated 2-7 inches long, 
slightly downy, articulated within h-3 inches from the base ; fronds 
i-i^ foot long, firm membranaceous, elongate lanceolate acuminate, 
very much attenuated and gradually decurrent at the base, pubescent- 
villous on the costa and veins, sori rather large, forming a single and 
scarcely interrupted line very near to and on each side the costa. 
y. Sm. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii. 413. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 158. Bedd. 
F B. I. t 135. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula. The Assam locality is doubted 
by Mr. Clarke, who thinks the specimen in the Kew Herbarium of 
Griffith's was collected at Malacca. The Nilgiri locality is an error, 
the specimen being mussefolia {Kze). 
(Also in the Philippines and Canton.) 
B. ExiNVOLUCRAT^. — Sori without an indusium. Tribes 
Polypodiese to Acrostiche^. 
TRIBE X.— POLYPODIEi^. 
Sori on the back of the lobes, round or rarely short-oblong. 
* Desniobryoid series^ habit and mode of growth of Aspidiecc^ 
the stems continuous with the caudex ; sori generally medial on the 
veins. 
GENUS LVIL— PHEGOPTERIS. {Fee) 
{Fhegos, beech — the beech fern.) 
Sori round, veins forked or pinnate, veinlets free ; fronds from 
pinnate to decompound. Habit of Lastrea, and only differing from 
that genus in wanting an indusium. 
