Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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copious scattered irregularly, compital, large or small. Poly podium 
superficiale, Bl. En. Pl.Jav. Fil. 123. Hook. Syn. Fil. 2,$$- Bedd. 
FB.I.t.n- 
Khasya Hills, 4,000-6,000 feet elevation, extending to the 
Naga country to the east, and to Bhotan and Mishmee ; Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in South China.) 
10. Pleopeltis lanceolata. (Z.) Rhizome long-creeping, 
paleaceous, with lanceolate ferruginous scales, stipes remote, 1-2-4 
inches long; fronds coriaceous, 3-9 inches long, \-% inch wide, 
lanceolate, more or less acuminate, long and gradually attenuated at 
the base, copiously furnished with orbicular ovate, small appressed 
peltate scales dark in the centre, pale in the circumference and den- 
ticulate ; veins immersed indistinct, the primary veins form large 
obliquely elongated areoles, which include very irregular and different 
sized areoles, and a few free veinlets which are rarely forked ; sori 
generally very large and often exceedingly prominent, pulvinate glo- 
bose or oval, stalked scales mixed with the spore cases. Polyp, lan- 
ceolatum, Linn. Sp. PL 1082. P. lepidota. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 56. 
Willd. in Schlecht Adunbr., p. 17. Bedd. F. S. /. f. iSi . P. 
angustata var- depauperata, C/arke, F. N. I. p. 559. 
Nilgiris and higher mountains on the West side of the Madras 
Presidency ; Assam (one poor specimen in Kew Herbarium) ; Cey- 
lon, Ambawalla estate. 
(Also in Tropical America and the West Indies, South Africa 
and its islands ; St. Helena ; Sandwich Islands.) 
11. Pleopeltis ANGUSTATA. {Sw) Rhizome long-creeping, 
branched, paleaceous with falcate subulate-setaceous scales, stipes 
remote, ii-4 inches long ; fronds 5 inches to a span or more long 
f- 2 inches wide, tapering below into a petiole, glabrous above, clothed 
beneath with cottony tomentum which is deciduous, coriaceous, 
oblong-lanceolate ; venation sunk obscure, costular areoles with 
free or branched and more or less connected veinlets ; sori very 
large, subglobose oval, partially sunk in the frond, very convex, 
