3IO Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
forked the superior veinlet only is soriferous ; sori round, slightly 
immersed. Bedd. F, B. I. t. i88. Baker ^ in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 508. 
Ceylon, about Dickoya, on 
trees, very sweet scented (CP. 
3,900). 
13. POLYPODIUM DECORUM. 
{Brack) Caudex short, rather 
thick, creeping, densely ferrugi- 
nous-squamose, stipes approxi- 
mate, sub-terminal on the caudex, 
2-4 lines long ; fronds coriaceous, 
glabrous, 6-12 inches long, \-\ 
inch broad, narrow-lanceolate, 
much and almost caudate-acu- 
minate, the base very gradually 
attenuated into the short stipe, 
deeply and nearly to the rachis 
pinnatifid, segments horizontally 
patent, narrow-oblong obtuse, 
quite entire, below gradually be- 
coming shorter and broader and 
forming shallow elongated lobed 
wings at the base ; costa glabrous 
or pilosulous, costule and veins 
quite sunk and inconspicuous; 
sori oblong, 2-8 in a row, on each 
side of the costule, and apical on 
the short veins, which do not 
nearly reach the margin, partially 
sunk in a hairy cavity (but with 
no raised border). Hook. Sp. 
Fil. iv. 179. Brack. Fil. Un. St. 
F B. I. t. 238A. P. serra, Wall. 
N?I64. 
POLYPODIUM ThWAITESII. 
{Bedd.) 
Exp. p. 7, /. 
Cat, 313. 
2, /. 2. Bedd. 
