434 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
the fronds all 3-foliate and the pinnae often deeply lobed, particularly 
the two lower Ones, these sniiple and 3-foliate fronds grow on 
the same rhizome, the broad sterile fronds are often partially seeded, 
particularly on the long terminal cauda. I have only seen pinnate 
fronds on North Indian examples. 
Sir W. Hooker in his Sp. Fil. gives Malabar for a locality and 
quotes Rheede,Hort. Malab. xii. 1 1, which plate isDrynariaquercifolia; 
PI. 19 is probably intended, which however is Gymnopteris subcrenata. 
On one of Wallich's sheets of this fern (25, No. 3) there is written, 
Rheede, Malab. xii. t. 19. 
8. Gymnopteris subrepanda. {Hook.) Rhizome woody, 
wide-creeping ; stipes of barren fronds stout erect, nearly naked ; 
barren fronds varying from simple, i foot long, i|-2 inches broad, to 
2 feet long, i foot broad, copiously pinnate, with several linear-oblong 
entire or subrepand pinn^ on each side, which are sometimes 6-9 
inches long, 2 inches broad, texture subcoriaceous, surfaces and 
rachis naked ; main veins distinct nearly to the edge, with copious 
areoles, with free veinlets between them; fertile fronds like the others, 
but smaller. Sy7t. Fil. p. 419. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. /. 275. Bedd. 
F. B. I. t 339. 
Penang. 
This is nearly allied 'to the more pinnate varieties of flagellifera. 
Dodgson's specimen from the Himalayas referred here in the Kew 
Herb, certainly belongs to flagellifera. 
9. Gymnopteris tricuspis. {Hook.) Rhizome creeping, 
clothed with subulate setaceous ferruginous scales ; stipes i foot long, 
i\ of the fertile frond; sterile frond subcoriaceous, subtriangular- 
caudate, 8-10 inches long, 10-12 inches wide at the base, including 
the spread of the lateral lobes, deeply trilobate or 4-lobed, lateral 
lobes 5 inches or more long, inch wide, horizontally patent, inter- 
mediate one 6 inches and more long, 2 inches wide, all of them ob- 
long-lanceolate acuminate, entire unicostate; venation manifest, 
costules distant, indistinct, connected by transverse irregular curved 
veins forming large areoles enclosing lesser ones which have copious 
