4o6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
South India, on the Western mountains, 2,000-5,000 feet eleva- 
tion ; Ceylon, central provinces; North India, from the plains up to 
about 4,000 feet elevation ; Malay Peninsula, Birma, &c. 
(Also in the Malay Islands ; Queensland ; Polynesia ; Tropical 
Africa, and Mauritius.) 
2. ViTTARiA siKKiMENSis. {Kuhu) Rhizome very shortly creep- 
ing, with slaty-rufous hair-pointed scales ; stipes densely tufted"; fronds 
up to 4 inches long, but often very much shorter, 2V ii^^h broad, 
subobtuse ; midrib beneath obscure or slightly depressed ; sori sunk 
in a large extrorse marginal furrow. 
Kuhn in LinncEa xxxvi. 66. Clarke^ 
F. N. I. p. 574. V. minor var. minima, 
Hook. Sp. Fil V. 183. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. ^6 {riot minor of Fee). 
Sikkim, 2,000-6,000 feet elevation, 
common ; Khasya, Mowlong, 2,500 feet 
elevation ; Tenasserim. 
The Tenasserim specimens are cer- 
tainly the same as the Sikkim, and when 
Mr. Clarke stated that the Moulmein 
and Malay fern was distinct, he had in 
his eye only the Malacca plant {i.e. fal- 
cata or the next species). I have never 
seen the Tenasserim plant more than 
2 inches long, and the Sikkim plant is 
also common in this small state, though other specimens are 4 inches 
long, the soral groove is extrorse as in Vittaria elongata (not intra- 
marginal as in the section Tseniopsis) and this plant can hardly be 
said to differ from elongata except in its very small size, and is 
probably only a variety of it. 
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VITTARIA SIKKIMENSIS. 
3. Vittaria falcata. [Kimze.) Fronds 4-5 inches long, 
inch broad, the apex blunt, the lower part narrowed gradually to the 
base, texture leathery and very thick ; a distinct raised midrib 
