Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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I. Phegopteris Scottii. {Bedd.) Caudex suberect, stout 
tufted, clothed with brownish-black subulate scales as is the base of 
the stipe; fronds pinnate, oblong, with the stipe 10-12 inches long, 
by about 3 inches broad, rachis furnished with hair-like scales ; 
pinnge alternate 6-7 approximated pairs, with a terminal one, lower 
pair not much decreased in size, all short oblong or ovate obtuse 
from a square unequal base about \\ inches long, by a little less 
than I inch broad, and furnished with falcate acute serratures, gla- 
brous on both sides, buf with a few weak set^e or scales on the costa 
and veins, especially beneath ; veins 
in pinnate groups, the lower veinlet 
or the two lower not reaching more 
than half-way to the margin, upper 
ones terminating in a dot within 
the margin ; sori medial on the lower 
2-3 veinlets. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 345. 
Near Darjeeling, Valley of the 
Rungbee, 2,000 feet elevation (per- 
haps an abnormal form of Lastrea 
cuspidata or hirtipes). 
PHEGOrTERIS SCOTTII. {Bedd. 
2. Phegopteris erubescens. 
( Wall, under Poly podium.) Stipes 
tufted 1-2 feet and more long, stout, 
as well as the rachis and costa more or less purplish-tawny, fronds in 
general ample but varying from i to 4 feet in length and from 6 
inches to more than 2 feet in breadth, firm, sub-coriaceous, broad- 
ovate acuminate, pinnate, pinnae 3-16 inches long, -I- 1 1- inch wide, 
approximate, sessile, elongate-oblong, the sides parallel for a long 
way and then gradually acuminated to a serrated apex, deeply nearly 
to the costa pinnatifid, segments oblong, subfalcate, rather acute, 
entire or obscurely serrated, glabrous above, beneath sparingly fur- 
nished with longish white needle-like hairs on the rachis and costas 
and sometimes on the veins ; veins approximate, simple free, two 
lowermost opposite pair meeting but scarcely uniting at the sinuvS, 
