Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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creeping, clothed with broad grey scales ; stipe i inch or more long, 
clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fronds 8-12 inches long, 1-| inch 
broad, acuminate, the base narrowed very gradually, the margins 
slightly undulated ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides naked ; veins 
forked obUque, rarely simple ; sori round, at the apex of the upper 
veinlet, or at the apex of the vein when simple, forming a single row 
on each side of the costa. Hook. Syn. Fil. 321. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 237. 
Ceylon, Newera Elya, on rocks and trees. 
4. PoLYPODiuM Wallii. {Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, scaly, fur- 
nished with numerous thick black wiry roots ; stipes 3-6 lines long, 
scaly and hairy; fronds linear-lanceolate with a blunt apex 3 inches 
long by \ inch broad, thick, coriaceous, the veins quite hidden, more 
or less clothed on both sides and on the margins with delicate black 
hairs ; veins thick, forked (or simple towards the apex of the frond) ; 
sori large, round, terminal on the superior veinlet and forming 
a regular row on each side about midway between the costa and 
the margin. Bedd. Fern Sup. t. 386. Poly podium parasiticum, var. 
pilosiusculum, Thw. MS. C. P. 3921. 
Ceylon, Adam's Peak ; allied to parasiticum, but much larger 
and of much thicker texture. 
5. PoLYPODiuM HiRTELLUM. {Bl.) Caudcx small ascending, 
scaly above ; stipes tufted \-\ \ inch long, slender, filiform, villous, 
with spreading reddish-brown hairs, fronds firm-membranaceous, 
linear- oblong to lanceolate, 1-4 or more inches long, of an inch 
broad, quite entire at the margin, attenuated at the base, rather 
densely villous and ciliated with similar hairs to those of the stipes ^ 
veins spreading, simple or often forked near the base ; sori in a single 
regular series close to the costa ; veins when simple soriferous near 
their base, when forked, soriferous at the apex of the short fork. 
Bl. En. Fil. Jan. p. 123. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 166. Polypodium hir- 
tum. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 170, {not Mett). Bedd. F. B. I. 212. P. 
lasiosorum {Hook.), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 172. 
Ceylon. 
(Also in Java and Luzon.) 
