Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 353 
forming a single series on each side between the costa and margin, 
generally towards the apex only, sometimes longitudinally confluent. 
S7£f. Sy/i. Fil. pp. 27 and 224. Niphobolus angustatus, Hook. Sp. 
Fil. V. 43. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 185. Niphopsis, J. Sni. Pleopeltis 
macrosora, Pnsl. Pol} podium sphasrocephalum, Wall. Cat. n. 272. 
Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Malacca, and Penang. South 
India (?) I have never detected it, though I have a specimen said to 
have been collected on the Nilgiris, and Hooker gives Tranquebar as 
a locality. 
(Also in the Malay Islands and North-east Australia.) 
12. Pleopeltis normalis. {Bon.) Rhizome scandent, thick 
as a crowquill, with ovate or lanceolate almost hair- pointed adpressed 
scales, which carry erect from their backs tufts of linear stiff black-red 
bristles ; fronds narrowed much at the base, sometimes to the very 
foot of the stipe, usually broadest near the middle, 1-2 feet long, by 
1-2 inches broad, submembranaceous glabrous, a few scattered ovate 
close-adpressed scales often present on the stipes and near the base 
of the main rachis beneath ; venation as in linearis, main veins very 
indistinct and areoles with free included veinlets ; sori large, super- 
ficial or a little immersed, often in several rows, or irregularly in one 
row, or rarely regular in one row. Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. i. Clatkey 
FN. L 558. Hook. Syn. Fil. 358, in part. Bedd. F B. I. t 10. 
P. longifrons, ^^7//. Cat. 274. 
Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan, 4,000-8,000 feet elevation, 
Khasya, 3,000-5,000 feet ; Tenasserim on Mooleyit 5,000 feet 
elevation. 
B. Main veins distinct to the edge, or nearly to the edge. 
13. Pleopeltis rhyncophylla. {Hook.) Rhizome creeping, 
slender, paleaceous, subsquarrose with subulate ferruginous scales, 
stipes scattered, slender, 1-2 inches long of the sterile frond, 2-4 of 
the fertile one ; fronds firm, subcoriaceous, glossy, slightly thickened, 
remotely crenate, sterile ones 1-2 inches long, elliptical, or subovate, 
obtuse, fertile ones 3-6 inches long, lanceolate from near the base, 
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