426 Ferns of British India and Cevlon. 
unequal sided, the inferior basal portion being much cut away, 
the upper side deeper cut than in the type. P. aspleniifolia, Bory^ in 
Belang. Voy. Bok 23, t. 3. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 195. Acrost. Wighti- 
anum, Wall. Cat. 2163. 
South India, in moist evergreen 
forests on the western side, up to 
nearly 4,000 feet elevation. (Not 
found in North India.) 
This can only be considered a 
variety of this variable species, it 
looks, however, very different when 
N°256. ^ growing, being a much brighter 
poLYBOTRYA AppENDicuLATA. greeu and a far prettier species than 
{Willd.) vAR. ^ Hamiltoniana. ^he type, it is constant to its char- 
acters in cultivation. 
Var. I Hamiltoniana. 
^^^^ 
N9257. 
POLYBOTRYA APPENDICULATA. {Willd.) 
VAR. £ COSTULATA. 
pinnules up to i\ inches long, 
( Wall.) Fertile pinnae interrupted, 
the sori in bead-like clusters. 
Wall. Cat. 29. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. Ill, the lower 3 figures. 
Polyb. Helferiana {Kze), Schk. 
Siipp. 2/. 47. 114. 
Chittagong, Assam; Te- 
nasserim,and Malay Peninsula 
generally. 
Var. f COSTULATA. {Hook) 
Sterile pinn^ pinnatifid \-\ 
down to the rachis ; main 
veins costulate and prominent, 
the lowest pair of pinnae often 
more or less bipinnate both in 
the sterile and fertile, some- 
times half deltoid and deeply 
bipinnate at the base, the 
and again deeply pinnatifid. 
