*2g2 
Ferns of British Ind-ia and Ceylon. 
stipe with large lanceolate yellowish-brown scales near the base 
fronds 6-9 inches long by 4-6 inches broad, subdeltoid, lowest pinnae 
as long or nearly as long as any above them, main rachis beneath, 
with small ovate scales, pinnae i-f inch broad, cut down nearly to 
the main rachis, lobes oblong blunt or scarcely acute, entire or slightly 
crenate, i J-2 lines broad, more or less pilose on both sides ; veinlets 
6-8 on a side, the lower ones forked ; sori nearer the margin than 
the midrib. Metf. Fil. Hort. Lips. 83. Polypodium Phegopteris, 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 308. Clarke^ F. N. I. 544. 
Cashmir, above Sonamurg, 11,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in North Europe, Asia, and America ; Caucasus and 
Japan.) 
5. Phegopteris distans. {Don. under Polypodium.) Stipe 
tufted, squamose near the base up to 2 feet long, yellowish or dark 
purplish-brown, glossy ; fronds up to about 3 feet long, the lower pinnae 
generally reduced and distant, sometimes not at all reduced, pinnae 
6-8 inches long, \\ inch broad, cut down nearly or quite to the rachis 
into deeply pinnatifid pinnules \ inch broad, with blunt or acute 
toothed or subentire lobes, the base dilated, texture herbaceous, rachis 
villous or rarely glabrous, undersurface a little hairy; veinlets pinnate 
in the ultimate lobes, pellucid ; sori generally on the lower veinlets 
below the apex, or rarely apical, the veinlet not being continued beyond 
the sorus. Polypodium, Don. Frod..^ Fl. Nep. 2. Polypodium 
paludosum {Dl.\ Bedd F. S. I. t. 16^. P. Griffithii, Ifook. Sp. Fil. 
iv. 236. P. longipes. Wall. Cat. 316. P. adnatum, Wall. Cat. 328. 
P.brunneum, Wall. Cat. 333. This variety "adnata," Clarke, F. N.I. 
p. 544 (which is Lastrea microstegia, Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 119 ^ndiBedd. 
F. B. I. t. 39) only differs in being a little more compound and 
generally bipinnate, but it runs into the type. Var. " glabrata " of 
Clarke only differs in being somewhat more glabrous. Var. " minor " 
of Clarke is a smaller, less cut form, pinnae only 1-2 inches long, 
pinnatifid only one-third down, but it runs into the type. 
North India, from Kashmir to Bhotan, 3,000-8,000 feet elevation, 
very common ; Khasya, 3,000-5,000 ; South India, on the Western 
