Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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areoles, within which the sori have their origin, a second series of 
smaller areoles is formed nearer the margin, and these and the rest 
of the frond are filled up with a net-work of smaller irregular areoles, 
including free simple or forked veinlets which have clavate apices ; 
sori small not very numerous, 1-3 in each large areole, compital 
upon the secondary veins 
of the primary areole, often 
confluent into transverse, 
oblong or linear (grammi- 
toid) sori. Bl. Fl. Jav. Fil 
168, /. 76. Polypodium tri 
dactylon. Wall. Cat. 3 1 5 
Hook. Sp. Fil. V. 75. Hook 
et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 209 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. II. 
North India, Sikkim 
and Bhotan, 1,000-4,000 
feet elevation ; Khasya from 
no elevation up to 4,000 
feet, in the plains at Mymen- 
singh, Chittagong, plains 
up to 1,000 feet; Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in the Philip- 
pines and South China.) 
Var. minor. Fronds 
always small and simple 
3-4 inches long, by i-f 
inch broad, never lobed. 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 179. 
South India, AnamaUays and Bolampatty Valley, 3,000-4,000 
feet elevation, in rivers on rocks under water, fructifying when the 
water subsides after the rainy season ; Ceylon. This may not be 
entitled to rank as a permanent variety, as Mr. Clarke says the North 
N?204-. 
PLEOPELTIS PTEROPUS. 
{BI.) 
VAR. MINOR. 
