314 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
17. PoLYPODiUM suBFALCATUM. {Bl.) Rhizomc crect ; stipes 
densely tufted, clothed with soft spreading hairs ; fronds 2-10 inches 
long, by inch broad pinnate, i.e. cut down to the rachis into close 
spreading pinnae ; pinnae hairy on both sides, soft in texture, rather 
sharply toothed sometimes one-third or half-down, decurrent at the 
base, the lower ones gradually reduced ; veinlets simple, not reaching 
the margin ; sori apical on the veinlets one to each tooth or lobe 
of the pinnae. Bl. Fil. Jav. 186, /. 87. A. B. Hook. Syn. Fil. 328. 
lum, and Mr. Baker has the former both under repandulum and 
minutum in the Synopsis Filicum. 
South India, Nilgiris Lamb's Rock near Conoor, Anamallays 
banks of Toracadu river, 4,5000 feet ; Ceylon, central provinces ; 
North India, Himalayas from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 5,000-9,000 feet 
elevation ; Khasya. Mr. Clarke says that some of the Khasya 
specimens are as small as P. trichomanoides, but that species has 
only one sorus to each pinna, whilst this has the pinna polysorus, or 
394 ^'^ C. P. 12^0, 
5 not 3073. It differs from 
^ the last in being soft in 
texture instead of coria- 
ceous, in being much 
more hairy (repandulum 
being generally quite 
glabrous), in being ser- 
rate instead of crenulate, 
and in the sori not 
being immersed. Mr. 
Thwaites included them 
both under his parvu- 
Polyp. parvulum, Bedd. 
F. S. 1. 1. 166, not Bory. 
P. subfalcatum, Bedd. 
F.B.I. 189,/^. A. {not 
fig. B.) P. parvulum, 
Thw. En. PI. Zey, p. 
POLYPODIUM SUBFALCATUM. {Bl.) 
