Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 31 i 
South India, on the Tinnevelly Mountains, near Courtallum ; 
Ceylon, Singhe Rajah Forest; Singapore and Mount Ophir; North- 
west India, near Mandal (Edgeworth). 
(Also in Borneo, Luzon, Tahiti.) 
14. PoLYPODiUM FUSCATUM. {Bl.) Stipes tufted, 1-3 inches 
long, densely clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fronds 3-6 inches 
long, |-i inch broad, cut down nearly to the rachis throughout into 
close entire obtuse pinn^, 
1 line broad, the lower 
ones shorter and broader, 
texture subcoriaceous, 
rachis and both sides 
thinly clothed with soft 
hairs j veins obscure, sim- 
ple ; sori forming a close 
row on each side the 
midrib, at last filling 
nearly the whole surface. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 331. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 324. 
Ceylon. 
(Also in Java.) 
* * Fronds pinnate. 
15. POLYPODIUM 
OBLIQUATUM.(^/.) StipCS 
tufted, I inch or more 
long, rigid, naked or vil- 
lous ; fronds up to 15 inches long and 2 inches broad, pinnate, being 
cut down to the rachis throughout into entire close subhorizontal 
linear pinnae, i-ii lines broad, dilated at the base, the lower ones 
dwarfed, texture subcoriaceous ; rachis naked or hispid, both sides 
naked ; veinlets simple, not reaching the margin ; sori sunk in a 
cavity 4-6 on each side, apical on the veinlets ; the edges of the 
POLYPODIUM DECORUM. {Brack.) 
