350 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
glabrous, linear-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, gradually long atten- 
uated below on the stipes, entire, the margins subrevolute, venation 
internal, very indistinct, costules veniform, united by transverse veins 
into rather large areoles then 
into irregular lesser ones, which 
include free veinlets; sori com- 
pital oblong, forming a line or 
series near the margin rather 
close placed, sunk in cysts, 
and forming a corresponding 
elevated line on the upper sur- 
face, capsules mixed with long- 
stipitate scales. Metten. Polyp, 
p. 87. Hook. Sp. Fil. V. 60. 
Btdd. F. B. I. t. 7. P. con- 
tiguum. Wall. Cat. 285. 
Birma and the Malay 
Peninsula generally, Mergui, 
Singapore, &c. ; North India, 
Kumaon. 
(Also in the Philippines 
and Malay Islands.) 
9. Pleopeltis superfi- 
ciALis. {Bl.) Rhizome wide- 
creeping, thick as a crow-quill, 
the scales ovate and lanceolate 
acute, spreading, brown shining, 
stipes up to six inches long, 
often curved, sometimes with 
ovate scales ; fronds lanceo- 
late-linear (often forked at the 
apex), subcoriaceous, narrowed 
N?I96. 
PLEOPELTIS LONGIFOLIA. 
{Mett.) 
gradually at both ends, the margins entire, 6-12 inches long, by \-2 
inches broarl, glabrous ; areoles numerous with free veinlets ; sori 
