364 Ferns of British Imdia and Ceylon. 
elongated and knotted with short frondiferous branches, everywhere 
densely imbricated with intensely black polished ovate lanceolate 
subcoriaceous concave scales, fuscous-pubescent at the margins, and 
not hair-pointed ; stipes 6-9 inches long, glabrous, glossy ; fronds 
6-18 inches long, 8-10 inches broad, cut down to a broadly winged 
rachis into 6-20 pair of pinnae or segments, l-i^ inch broad, the 
lowest pair generally deflexed, and either a little decurrent on the 
stipe, or scooped out and subcordate at their bases, sometimes quite 
patent as are the other pinnae, all a little serrulate, finely acuminate, 
glabrous, except the rachises 
which are generally puberu- 
lous, and the main rachis 
sometimes scaly beneath; main 
veins distinct to the margin, 
areoles with copious free vein- 
lets ; sori in a single row near 
the midrib. Hook. Sp. Fil. 
V. 88. Bedd. KB. L 138. 
I cannot separate Clarke's 
variety " Oakesii " from the 
type; his variety " Parishii " is 
a Drynaria as far as the Moul- 
mein plant is concerned ; Jer- 
don's Khasya specimen being 
a single small sterile frond 
without rhizome, which may be 
PLEOPELTis iNcuRVATA. {BL) cbenipcs or hastata. Ebenipes, 
though closely allied to hastata, seems to be sufficiently distinct as a 
species in its peculiar rhizome, the fronds both in it and in mala- 
codon, var. majus, are sometimes cordate, sometimes decurrent at 
the base ; in malacodon type (in very many specimens examined) they 
are always cordate, and in hastata always decurrent. 
Himalayas, from Ghurwal to Bhotan, 6,000-12,000 feet elevation. 
25. Pleopeltis INCURVATA. {Bl) Rhizomc creeping, palea- 
ceous, with adpressed scales ; stipes scattered, a span to a foot long 
