Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 309 
linear, attenuated at both extremities, deeply nearly to the costa 
pinnatifid or almost pinnate (quite so at the very base), lobes hori- 
zontally patent from a broad base, ovate or oblong entire, sub-concave 
beneath, sub-deciduously ciliated with long fibrous or blackish 
patent hairs ; veins solitary in each lobe, simple or forked, each lobe 
having a single sorus near the base of the veins and the costa. Hook. 
Sp. Fil iv. 178 ; Syn. Fil 326. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 2. 
Sikkim,' 9,000-12,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in South America, Brazil and Ecuador ; and Cuba.) 
II. POLYPODIUM GLANDULOSUM. {Hook.) 
distinct, clinging to the bark of trees by copious 
rooting fibres, the rest of the plant all over 
pilose-glandulose, most so beneath ; stipes 
tufted 1-3 lines long, fronds 2-4 inches long, i 
inch broad, linear obtuse, scarcely attenuated 
at either extremity, rather firm-membrana- 
ceous, sub-succulent, deeply nearly to the 
rachis pinnatifid j segments ovate, sub-acute, 
horizontally patent, decurrent at the base, 
lowermost ones free, all of them serrate-pinna- 
tifid, costule, and rather distant few and ob- 
lique simple veins indistinct ; sori 1-6 to each 
segment globose. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 193. 
Syn. Fil. 327. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 238B. 
Ceylon, in the central provinces, Ram 
bodde, and summit of Wattakelia Hill. 
Caudex small, 
HI 
N?I63. 
rOLYPODIUM 
GLANDULOSUM. [Hook.) 
12. PoLYPODiuM ThwaitesiI: {Bedd.) Caudex creeping, 
clothed with lanceolate scales ; fronds sessile or subsessile, sub- 
coriaceous, perfectly glabrous, 2-4 inches long by about i inch 
broad, lanceolate or oblanceolate, deeply almost to the rachis pin- 
natifid ; lobes 1-2 lines broad, lanceolate, blunt, rather ascending, 
more or less repand or sinuate-pinnatifid, the lower reduced 
gradually to a narrow wing ; veinlets distant, erect-patent, simple or 
more rarely forked, where simple soriferous at the apex, where 
