362 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Indian plant is small and simple at the higher elevations; but I never 
saw 3-lobed examples in South India or Ceylon, or fronds more than 
about 4 inches long. 
Var. zoster^formis. ( IVa/l. Cat. 280.) Fronds very narrow 
and ribbon-like, 4-7 inches long, by 1-3 lines broad. Hook. Syn. 
357" Bedd. F. B. I. t. 123. Baker is wrong in saying there are 
no free veinlets ; it differs from the last in no way except in the nar- 
rowness of the fronds, and it is certainly only a local variety. 
Tenasserim, beds of rivers at the foot of Mooleyit. 
acuminated ; venation conspicuous, main veins often prominent 
beneath, distant, united by transverse veins forming 3-4 series of 
primary areoles, which are filled up by lesser ones including free 
veinlets ; sori large not sunk, arranged in a single series nearer the 
costa than the margin. Jhunb. Fl. Jap. 335. Polypodium oxylobum, 
Wall. Cat. 294. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 175. Pleopeltis trifida, Z>^;/. 
"^^^ Fronds deeply pimiatifid. 
22. Pleopeltis hastata. 
{Thujib.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 
paleaceous with dense subulate or 
hair-pointed falcate ferruginous 
scales ; stipes 2-5 inches long ; 
fronds coriaceous, 2-12 inches and 
more long, deltoid-ovate acuminate, 
trifid or deeply pinnatifid to within 
half an inch of the rachis, with 5-1 1 
segments, which are 3-6 inches 
long, I to I inch wide, very patent 
from a broad base oblong-lanceolate, 
very finely acuminated entire or 
repand or denticulate, thickened 
at the margin, the lowest ones 
cuneate-decurrent, terminal segment 
often the longest and most narrowly 
N?205. 
i'LEOI'ELTIS IIASTATA. {Thuub) 
