Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
437 
Fil. 423 {at least as far as the North Indian specimens are concerned). 
Acros. terminans, Wall. Cat. 2168. 
South India, most abundant in all the Western coast moist 
forests from the plains up to about 4,000 feet ; East Bengal, the 
lower hills up to 3,000 feet elevation Ceylon (repandum of Thw. 
En.) ; Birma, common. 
{Hook, and Grev. under Acros- 
II. Gymnopteris subcrenata 
tichujn.) Rhizome thick, fronds 
glabrous pinnate, 1-4 feet, of 
which the stipe is sometimes 
nearly half ; stipes and rachis 
furnished with a few scales ; 
sterile fronds, pinnae 4-12 
aHernate or sub-opposite petio- 
late, broad lanceolate sinuate 
or waved, with a longish ser- 
rated acumination, terminal 
pinnae much the longest 
(sometimes 2 feet long), proli- 
ferous at the apex ; primary 
veins close, costate and con- 
spicuous nearly to the margin, 
veinlets anastomosing pretty 
regularly at right angles, from 
which proceed one or two 
generally free veinlets with 
clavate apices ; fertile fronds 
conform to sterile, but much contracted. Hook and Grev. Ic. Fil. 
no. Paecilopteris terminans, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 203 {not Wall.). 
P. Hookerianum, Moore, Thw. En. p. 380, proUfera. Hook, Ic. 
Fl. t. 681-2. Rheede, Hort. Malab. xii. 19. 
South India, not uncommon in the Western moist forests of the 
Madras and Bombay Presidencies, up to about 4,000 feet elevation ; 
Ceylon, central provinces. 
N? 265 
G Y iM N O P T E R I S S U B C R E N A A . 
{Hook, and Grev.) 
