Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 295 
partly refers to Lastrea tenericaulis. Phegopteris pallida {Brack.) ^ 
Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 266. 
Himalayas, from Kumaon to Bhotan, in tropical valleys up to 
2,000 feet elevation, common in Chittagong Hills, 500 feet elevation ; 
South India, Carccor ghat, Malabar and elsewhere along the Western 
ghats, but not common ; Malay Peninsula. 
One of the handsomest of Indian ferns, and much in cultivation, 
it may be a Lastrea (if Phegopteris is to be kept distinct from that 
genus, the propriety of which I doubt), but no one has yet detected 
an indusium, in any case it is quite distinct from Lastrea tenericaulis. 
(Also in North Australia and Polynesia.) 
9. Phegopteris punctata. {Thunb. under Polypodium) 
Rhizome firm, wide-creeping, villous ; stipes scattered 1-2 feet 
long and with the lower part of the main rachis more or less viscous- 
pubescent ; fronds 1-4 feet long, tripinnate, pinnae up to about 
2 feet long, lanceolate to deltoid, secondary pinnae 4-6 inches long, 
tertiary pinnae sessile on the rachis, which is not winged, blunt at the 
apex, and pinnated two-thirds down into short rounded crenated 
lobes, more or less furnished on both sides with scurfy hair-like 
scales, the margins often somewhat reflexed, as in Hypolepis ; sori 
copious towards the apex of the veinlets and near the margin. Thunb. 
FL Jap. 337. Phegopteris punctata, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 312. 
Polypodium rugulosum. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 272. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 
170. Polyp, rugulosum, Labill. FL Nov. Hoi. ii. 92 /. 241. Hypo- 
lepis hostilis, Presl. {as to the Nilgiri plant.) 
Himalayas, from Chumba to Bhotan and Chittagong, 1,000- 
5,000 feet elevation ; South India, common on the Western moun- 
tains at the higher elevations ; Ceylon, about Newera Elya ; Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also almost throughout the tropics and south temperate zone, 
extending to Japan, New Zealand, St. Helena, and ChiH ; not from 
continental Africa.) 
10 Phegopteris subdigitata. {Bhivie, under Folypcditm.) 
Stipes tufted, fiim, continuous with the rachip, furfuracecus, or 
