348 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
made a distinct variety of linearis by Mr. Baker in the Syn. FiL, but 
Mr, Baker now agrees that it should be made a distinct species ; 
the scales of the rhizome differ from those of " normalis," but the 
fronds are almost exactly similar to that species, and I had previously 
confounded it with that (not with linearis.) 
5. Pleopeltis clathrata. {Clarke.) Rhizome short creep- 
ing, with ovate acute, often hair- pointed scales ; fronds small, stipe 
often as long as the frond ; sori mixed with sessile irregularly peltate 
and lacerate clathrate scales. Clarke^ F. N. I. p. 559, /. ^2^ fig. 1. 
Kashmir, Pir Pinjul, 11,000-12,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Afghanistan.) 
Mr. Clarke thinks it may be high level form of Hnearis, but that 
the scales are peculiar, the texture thinner, the venation conse- 
quently more conspicuous, and the stipe longer. 
6. Pleopeltis stenophylla. {Bl.) Rhizome creeping, palea- 
ceous, with glossy subulate pale imbricated ferruginous scales, stipes 
1-2 inches long, distant ; fronds firm-coriaceous, very rigid, glabrous 
polished, 4-9 inches long, ^-2 inch, or rarely more wide, linear- 
oblong obtuse, the margin thickened and subreflexed, broadly crenate- 
sinuate, rarely narrowing upwards, but much and gradually attenuated 
below on the stipes ; costa prominent beneath, costules none, veins 
anastomosing so as to form oblong, hexagonal oblique areoles, gene- 
rally quite em^3ty or with rarely a free included veinlet ; sori rather 
distant oval, arranged in a series close to the margin, deeply sunk in 
a cyst, forming elevated pustules on the upper side one to each 
crenature, the margin of the cavity elevated. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 135, /. 
55,/ I. Hook. Sp. Fil. V. 65. Mett. Polyp, p. 99, /. i, / 31-34 
Vdfiation. Bedd. F. B. I. 234. 
Mr. Clarke states that this comes between " linearis " type and 
his variety " steniste," but both these ferns have different venation, 
and neither have the sori sunk in cysts; this has the sori always much 
nearer the margin than the midrib even in the broader forms. 
Malacca, 
(Also in the PhiUppines.) 
