Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 293 
mountains, 5,000-8,000 feet, very abundant ; Ceylon ; Malay 
Peninsula. 
6. Phegopteris rufescens. {Bliime^ imder Polypodiiun) 
Caudex creeping, furnished with appressed scales and wiry roots, stipe 
8-16 inches long and together with the main and partial rachises 
slightly asperous ; fronds 12-18 inches long by 9-12 inches broad, 
subdeltoid, subcoriaceous, puberulous beneath, with minute yellow 
hairs, bi-tripinnatifid, /. e, lower pair of pinnae often bipinnatifid, 
upper ones pinnatifid, pinnules 
oblong obtuse, spinulose-ser- 
rate ; veins pinnate, 3-4 on a 
side, veinlets simple or forked, 
reaching to the margin ; sori 
medial on the veinlets. Poly- 
podium, Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 1 94, t. 
9 1 . Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 2 5 7 . Syn. 
Fll. 309. Bedd. F.S.I.t. 236. 
Ceylon, central provinces, 
3,000-5,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Java, New Cale- 
donia and Queensland.) 
7. Phegopteris Dryop- 
TERis. {Linn, under Poly- 
podium.) Rhizome creeping ; 
stipe with lanceolate subulate 
scales near the base ; fronds 
3-8 inches long and broad, deltoid, 3-pinnate, thin green, nearly 
glabrous, often glandulose, lower pinnae largest, pinnules lanceolate, 
only the lowest free, oblong slightly crenate, texture thin herbaceous, 
rachis glabrous ; veins pinnate in the lobes, veinlets forked or simple ; 
sori submarginal a little below the apex of the veinlet. Polypodium 
Dryopteris, Sp. PI. 1555. Hook. Syn. Fil. 309. Bedd. F. B. I. 
/. 74. Polypodium Robertianum, Milde^ Fil. Eur. 99. 
N9150 
PHEGOP'l'EPIS RUFESCENS. {Bluilic) 
