444 
Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
rnOTINOPTERIS 
270 
DRYNARIOIDES. 
[Hook.) 
N? 271. 
PLATYCERIUM GRA.NDE. [J. Sin.) 
this pinnatifid, with nume- 
rous close entire lanceolate 
acuminate lobes 4-6 inches 
long, il-if inch broad 
which reach down nearly to 
the rachis, all articulated, the 
lower ones passing down 
gradually into a mere un- 
dulated wing to the rachis^ 
which is continued to its 
very base ; texture very cori- 
aceous ; main veins raised, 
with transverse veinlets, and 
between them copious small 
areoles with free veinlets. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 425. Sp. 
Fil. V. 282. Bedd. R B. I. 
i- 325- 
Malay Peninsula^ Pe- 
nang. 
(Also in the Solomoa 
Islands.) 
GENUS LXXXVIIL — 
PLATYCERIUM. {^Desv) 
{Platys, broad ; keros, a horn 
— stag's-horn fern.) 
Sori occupying a portion 
only of the under side of 
the disk of the fertile fronds 
and forming large, often re- 
niform patches, frequently 
at the sinuses of the primary 
lobes ; main veins costseform, 
