Fkkns of British India and Ceylon. 
soriferous always at the very base, so as to form two lines or series (at 
length confluent) one on each side and close to the costa, not extend- 
ing to the apex of the segment ; main rachis stout with a broad groove 
on the upper side (when dry.) JVa/l. Cat. n. 330. Hook. Sp. Fil. 
iv. 236. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 213. Hook. Syn. Fil. 306. 
Himalayas, Kashmir to Bhotan, Khasya, 3,000-7,000 feet 
elevation ; Malay Peninsula. It is very like Lastrea tylodes. 
(Also in Malay Islands.) « 
3. Phegopteris auriculata. {Wall, under Folypodium.) 
Stipes stout, densely villous, with white matted hairs (as is the rachis), 
furnished below with numerous ovate black shining scales ; fronds 
ample, firm, membranaceous, 3 feet and more long, 16 inches broad, 
oblong-lanceolate acuminate, generally gradually attenuated below by 
the dwarfing of the pinnee, pinnated, pinnae numerous, about 8 inches 
long by I inch broad, sessile and furnished at the base on the 
under side with a curious hooked gland, sometimes nearly quarter 
inch long, pinnatifid nearly to the rachis, segments broad ob- 
long, very obtuse, entire, subfalcate, costa costules and veins 
villous, and the segments sparingly hairy on both sides between 
the veins ; veins pinnate, simple, extending to the margin, lowest 
pair entering the margin above the sinus, soriferous below the 
middle, spore cases furnished with a few long weak hairs. Poly- 
podium auriculatum, Wall. Cat. 314. Hook. Syn. Fil. 306. 
Bedd F. B. I. t 203. 
Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 5,000-8,000 feet 
elevation, common about Darjeeling, Khasya, Myrung wood, 
5,000 feet elevation. Polypodium appendiculatum, Bedd. F B. I. 
256, is only a state of this with the pinnae not reduced at 
the base. 
(Also in Java.) 
4. Phegopteris vulgaris. {Metl.) Rhizome slender creeping j 
