Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 431 
thick as a sparrow's quill, scaly at the apex, scales lanceolate ; stipes 
remote, slender, or in those of the fertile frond 4 inches long ; 
sterile fronds membranaceous, 1^-2 inches long, oblong or broad- 
lanceolate, costate, tapering into a stipe 2^ inches long ; costules in- 
distinct, areoles with a free included clavate veinlet, smaller towards 
the margin; fertile fronds 2 inches long, linear obtuse. Metten. Fil. 
Hort. Lips. p. 20. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 277. Bedd. F. B. I. f. 116. 
Khasya Hills, 2,000-4,500 feet, in river sands, perhaps only 
a small form of variabilis var. lanceolata. 
3. Gymnopteris Wallii. {Baker.) Rhizome slender, wide- 
GYMNOPTERIS METALLICA. {Bedd.) GYMNOPTERIS SPICATA. {L.f) 
creeping, scales minute, grey, lanceolate acuminate ; sterile fronds 
linear, subsessile, 8-9 inches long, under I inch broad, narrowed to 
both ends, obscurely repand, texture thin but rigid, surfaces naked, 
bright green ; midrib stramineous, veins slender, immersed, forming 
a single costal row of long areoles, usually with a free decurved vein- 
let springing from the outer border ; fertile frond fiUform, 6-8 inches 
