Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 349 
7. Pleopeltis sinuosa. {Wall.) Rhizome much branched, 
long-creeping or scandent on trees, sparingly radiculose, half an inch 
to two inches thick, almost woody when dry, carnose when recent, 
studded, as it were, with large conical processes upon which the stipe'; 
are or have been articulated, and which appear to increase much in 
size after the fronds have fallen, the whole densely covered (as it 
were tessellated) with nearly orbicular appressed whitish peltate 
scales with a dark spot in the centre, stipes 1-2 inches long, glabrous 
and scaleless ; fronds sub-dimor- 
phous, subcoriaceous glabrous, 
sterile ones 3-6-7 inches long, 
|-i inch broad, subelliptical, ob- 
long obtuse entire, fertile ones 
longer, sometimes i foot -16 
inches long, i-f of an inch wide, 
linear-oblong obtuse, the margins 
more or less sinuated, the base 
in both attenuate-decurrent ; ve- 
nation copiously anastomosing, 
forming large very irregular areoles 
filled with lesser ones (formed by 
more slender veins), and these 
include branched or simple vein- 
lets which occasionally again 
anastomose; sori remote, large, 
oblong, immersed in cysts, which 
form pustules on the upper side 
arranged in a single series nearer the margin than the costa. ]]^all. 
Cat. n. 2231. Hook. S_/>. v. 61. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 8. 
Malacca. 
(Also in the Solomon Islands, Amboyna and New Hebrides.) 
8. Pleopeltis longifolia. {Metten) Rhizome horizontal, 
creeping, thick squamose, stipes approximate, 2-3 inches long ; 
fronds 1-2-3 f^^t long, f-i^ inch wide, thick, carnose-coriaceous, 
PLEOPELTIS SINUOSA. {Wall.) 
