370 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
inches apart, not quite opposite, articulated with the rachis, i-i-|inch 
broad, the apex caudate ; the margin thickened and wavy, rarely 
lobed, sessile from a rounded base, or attenuated and petioled, tex- 
ture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous ; main veins distinct to the 
margin ; areoles copious, hidden, including free veinlets ; sori large, 
one between each main vein, forming a single row, much nearer the 
midrib than the margin (rarely in two rows). Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 3. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 368. P. capitellata, Wall. Cat. 306. Bedd. F B. L 
f. 12. 
Var. tenuicauda. {Hook.) Pinn^ gradually narrowed and 
acute at the base and petiolate, quite runs into the type and cannot 
be considered a variety. P. leiorhizon, Wall. Cat. 303, T,rd sheet. 
Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-9,000 feet elevation, 
very common, Khasya, 2,000-5,000 feet. 
33. Pleopeltis Lehmanni. {Mett.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 
with ovate or orbicular glabrous scales, each ending in a very long 
acumination ; stipes 8 inches or more long, glabrous as well as 
the rachis and frond; fronds i\-2 feet long, submembranaceous 
pinnate ; pinnae opposite or subopposite, sessile, articulated at the base 
(terminal one long petioled), linear oblong entire, with a caudate 
acumination 4-6 inches long, about f inch broad, superior base 
obliquely excised, inferior base amplexicaule, the margin entire or 
slightly repand ; main veins evident not extending quite to the 
margin, connected by the transverse veins which form about 4 series 
of areoles in which are free simple or forked veinlets with clavate 
apices ; sori irregular, generally 4-6 in two rows between the main 
veins. Mett. Poly. p. 229. Bedd. F.B. I. t. 260. Hook. Syn. Fil. 
p. 369. 
Sikkim, 4,000-8,000 feet elevation ; Birma. 
(Pleopeltis moulmeinensis, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 205, drawn from a 
single specimen in Mr. Parish's possession, is probably this, imper- 
fectly seeding ; it does not agree in habit with juglandifoHa.) 
34. Pleopeltis himalayensis. {Hook.) Rhizome glaucous 
