Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 449 
long, f-f inch broad, cuneate at the base, and often sUghtly stalked, 
the edge entire or sharply toothed ; texture coriaceous, rachis and 
both sides glabrous ; fertile pinnae shorter, made up of numerous 
close but distinct oblong sessile clusters. Bl. Enum. p. 252. Bcdd. 
F. S. L t 77. 
Ceylon, about Newera Elya ; South India, cultivated only (?) ] 
Malay Peninsula; Tenasserim, banks of rivers in the plains. This 
is commonly in cultivation in Southern India, but I very much doubt 
if it is wild ; I have never found it myself, though I have specimens 
said to have been collected in the Western ghats. 
(Also in Java.). 
N9 2.73. 
USMUNDA CLAYTONIANA. (Z. 
276. 
GSM UN DA REGALIS. (Z.) 
2. OsMUNDA Claytoniana. {Li7i.) Stipcs tufted, i foot or 
more long, clothed with loose woolly ferruginous tomentum when 
young, at length glabrous; fronds 1-2 feet long, 8-12 inches broad, 
simply pinnate ; pinnae deeply pinnatifid, the uppermost and lowest 
barren, some of the intermediate fertile, barren ones lanceolate, 4-6 
inches long, i inch or more broad, the lobes oblong, entire, texture 
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