Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 423 
Burnt. FL Zey. 234. S. sc andens, Smithy in Hook, yourn. of 
Bot. iii. 401. Bedd. F. S. /. f. 201. Lomaria scandens, Wilid, 
Sp. FL 293. 
South India, in the plains on the West Coast and up the 
mountains to about 3,000 feet elevation ; Ceylon. North India in 
the plains of Bengal and at low elevations on the hills ; Malay Pen- 
insula. (Davallia achilleifolia, Wall. Teratophyllum aculeatum, 
Mett. Ann.. Mus. Lug. Bat. 4, 296. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 209, is an 
abnormal form of this plant, showing clearly a winged partial rachis.) 
(Also in South China ; 
Queensland ; and Fiji.) 
2. Stenochl^na sorbi- 
FOLiA. (Z.) Rhizome thick, 
woody, often 40 feet long, clasp- 
ing trees like a cable, sometimes 
prickly, scales lanceolate-subulate, 
large ; fronds up to 18 inches 
long, simply pinnate, barren pin- 
nse 3-8 inches long, about i inch 
broad, bluntly pointed, margin 
entire or toothed, 3-20 on each 
side, articulated at the base, 
texture subcoriaceous, glabrous, 
or nearly so on both sides, rachis 
often winged, fertile pinnae smaller, 
much contracted, about \ inch s™nochl^na sorbifolia. (L.) 
broad. Acrostichum sorbifolium. Linn. Sp. Fl. p. 1526. Lomari- 
opsis. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 412. Bedd. F B. L. t. 192. 
The Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim, Malacca. 
Bedd. F. B. L. t. 210, is an abnormal bipinnate form of this 
plant in which the rachis of the pinnae is very broadly winged with 
small pinnules resembling the leaves of Feronia elephantum. Lo- 
maria limonifolia, Wall. Cat. 35, is the same form. 
(Also in Tropical America and West Indies ; Fiji ; Samoa ; 
