294 
Fkrns of British India and Ceyi.on. 
Kashmir, 7,000-11,000 feet elevation, and eastwards to Kumaon. 
(Also in Arctic and Alpine Europe, Asia and America.) 
8. Phegopteris ORNATA. {Wall, tmder Foly_podiu?n.) Caudex 
erect ; stipe, main and partial rachises with lanceolate-linear scales and 
muricate or scabrous from their persistent bases, not pilose, viscous or 
glaucous ; fronds very large up to 15-20 feet long, tripinnate, except 
that there is a very regular wing to the rachis, pinnse generally 2 feet 
or more long and about i foot broad, secondary pinn?e 1-2 inches broad, 
then rachis also scabrous and scaly and furnished with long white 
needle-like hairs, tertiary pinnules up to \ inch broad, linear-oblong 
from a sessile square base, resting on the wing of the tertiary rachis, 
rather distant from each other, acute or blunt at the apex, deeply often 
nearly to the costa pinnatifid, the costaand often the veins furnished 
with needle-like hairs, texture thin herbaceous ; veinlets simple or 
forked; sori medial. Wall. Cat. 327. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 171. 
Lastrea tenericaulis, Hook. Sp. Fil iv. t. 269, not the description which 
