368 Ferns of BRinsfi India and Ceylon. 
the secondary veins and veinlets. Wa/L Cat. n. 2^5. Hook. Sf. 
Fil. V. 85. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 122. 
North India, from Nepal to Bhotan, 3,000-8,000 feet elevation, 
Khasya, 2,000-6,000 feet ; Ceylon, forests above Telgamma, 4,000 
feet elevation ; Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Samoa.) 
Fronds pinnate. 
31. Pleopeltis palmata. {Bl^j Rhizome stout, the scales 
large lanceolate ; stipes 
6-12 inches long, firm, ere ct, 
glossy ; fronds 6-18 inches 
long, 8-12 inches broad, 
with a linear or linear-ob- 
long entire or sHghtly 
toothed or repand terminal 
lobe, and 1-6 similar ones 
on each side, which are 
inch broad, nar- 
rowed or dilated, always 
slightly adnate at the base, 
long caudate at the apex, 
those of the barren frond the 
broadest, texture subcori- 
aceous, both sides glabrous ; 
wTxvi^. main veins distinct to the 
PLEOPELTIS DiLATATA. {Wall.) edge, arcoles fine, hidden, 
including free incurved clavate veinlets ; sori rather large in a 
single row, midway between the costa and margin. Bl. Fil. Jav. 
p. 150, /. 64. Hook. Syn. Fil. 368. Bedd. F B. I. t. 156. 
Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Penang and Malacca. 
(Also in the Malay Islands and Philippines.) 
32. Pleopeltis juglandifolia. {Don). Rhizome stout creep- 
ing, with many spreading lanceolate subulate bright-ferruginous scales ; 
stipes I foot or more long, firm, erect, glossy; fronds i\-2 feet long, 
I foot or more broad; pinnae 8-10 on a side in pairs, which are 1-2 
