4o8 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
(Also in Tropical America, and the West Indies, Africa and its 
Eastern Islands.) 
6. VlTTARIA SCOLOPENDRINA. 
{Presl.) Caudex creeping, paleaceous 
with subulate scales ; fronds linear 
lanceolate acuminate, membranaceous, 
gradually attenuated at both ends, 
16-28 inches long by i inch broad, 
glabrous on both sides, scarcely stipi- 
tate ; midrib thick ; sori sunk in a 
furrow within the margin of the upper 
portion of the fronds, inner margin of 
the furrow winged, margin of the frond 
revolute over the fructification diapha- 
N"?24-0. 
VlTTARIA SULCATA. 
{Kuhii.) 
scolopendrina, Fr. Tent. 
nous 
Pter. p. 
or sub'n .'usiate. 
141. Hook. Syn 
Haplopteris 
Fil p. 396. 
Taeniopsis, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 212. 
Vitt. Zeylanica, Fee. 
Ceylon, southern and cen- 
tral provinces, on rocks up to 
3,000 feet elevation ; Himalayas, 
Sikkim, Assam, Bhotan. 
(Also in New Guinea, Phi- 
hppines,MalayIslands, Seychelles, 
and Mozambique.) 
7. VlTTARIA SULCATA. 
{Kuhn.) Rhizome short creep- 
ing, scales dense lanceolate, pale- 
brown ; fronds crowded, ligulate, 
obtuse, sessile, narrowed to the 
base, 2-4 inches long, J inch 
broad ; sori in an intramarginal 
VlTTARIA SCOLOPENDRINA. {Presl.) dccp furrow confiucd to the very 
much thickened upper half of the frond, where the midrib and veins 
