Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
313 
fertile pinnfe sometimes undulated. Hook. Syn. Fil 328. Bedd. 
F. S. I. 167. Cryptosorus, Fee. Coelopteris, A. Br. 
South India, Anamallay Mountains, up the Toracadu River, 
4,000-5,000 feet elevation, Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills; 
Ceylon, common on trees about Newera Elya. 
16. POLYPODIUM 
REPANDULUM. {Mett.) 
Caudex stout, erect, 
with densely matted 
roots ; stipes tufted, 
very short, naked or 
hairy ; fronds 4-6 
inches long, about i 
inch broad, cut down 
to the rachis through- 
out, into erect-patent 
blunt crenated pinnae 
i-f lines broad ; tex- 
ture subcoriaceous; 
rachis naked, or 
with a few very long 
hairs; surfaces naked, 
or with long hairs 
beneath on the costa; 
veinlets simple, fall- 
ing short of the mar- 
gin ; sori slightly 
immersed, filling 
nearly the whole 
space between the 
midrib and the margin, and apical on the veinlets. Hook. Syn. Fil. 
328. Polypodium subfalcatum, var. /3, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 189B. 
Polyp, minutum (Baker), Hook. Syn. Fil. 328, as far as the Ceylon 
plant is concerned. C. P. 3073. 
Ceylon, higher parts of central provinces, on trunks of trees. 
I'OLYPODIUM REPAxXDULUM. (JA"//. 
