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mens vary in length from 3 to 5 feet, and are from | to | inch broad. I 
have a specimen taken out by chance which measures 5 feet 3 inches. It 
grows on a hairy wide creeping rhizome, and is a very interesting fern. I’ve 
found it as near Colombo as the 6th M. Post on the Cotta road. 
This seems to be the only Ceylon species of the true Vittaria which is 
characterised by having the sori sunk in a two lipped marginal groove, well 
shown in Beddome’s figure. I notice that in En. PI. ♦Zeyl. p. 438 under C. 
P. 3806, this fern is given as a native of the Central Province. It is not 
uncommon in the forest of the Western Province, but I never found it in 
the hills. 
198. Vittaria (Tooniopsis) sulcata, Kulm. 
Bed. 11. t. 175, for C. P. 3807. In the letter-press Beddome says that 
this fern is found at 4,000 to 5,000 feet in the Central Province. I collected 
it in the forest between Ununagalla and Maussakellie in Kallibokka, in Oct* 
1869. It grows on the bark of trees, and until carefully examined may be 
taken for small plants of the next species. V. minor, var minima, "Bed. 11. 
t. 56 which Baker says is like this fern is a true Vittaria according to Bed- 
dome’s figure. 
198/1 Vittaria (Tseniopsis) lineata, £w. 
Bed. t. 54. C. P. 981. This is a common fern growing on the trunks 
of trees near Colombo, and in the Central Province. It is a more rigid fern 
than the V. elongata, but small plants of the two species are so like each 
other, that I find specimens of both in one ticket of C. P. 981 from the 
Peradeniya Herbarium. V. elongata has a long creeping rhizome covered with 
darker and finer hair-like scales, whilst V. (T. ) lineata has a slightly 
creeping rhizome, but the fronds generally densely tufted, and they grow 
erect or partly pendulous. Small plants from the Cinnamon gardens in Co- 
lombo are not unlike V. (T. ) falcata, and they agree well for the descrip- 
tions in Syn. Fil., and Beddome, and also with Bed. figure which shows it 
to be a true Tooniopsis. It is very generally found in dark vegetable mould 
amongst the singular aerial roots on the trunk of the Dawatagaha (Carallia 
integerrima) in the neighbourhood of Colombo. 
199. Vittaria. (Tceniopsis) Scolopendrina, Thw. 
Bed. 1. t. 212. This is a well marked fern and is not uncompion in th e 
forests of the Western and Southern Provinces, growing in dense masses in 
rich vegetable mould on rocks, or in the fork of trees. Mr. Th waites gives 
the Central Province as its habitat. 
200. Tsenitis blechnoides, Sw. 
Bed. 2. t. 54. This is a well marked and handsome fern. A single pinna 
of it not unlike a frond of the last one. It is found in the Kotawa forest 
about 10 miles to Eastward of Gralle, and in great abundance along a swamp 
in a small piece of forest not far from Hewissa. 
201. Drymoglossum piloselloides, Presl. 
Bed. 1. 1. 55. This fern and 173, Polypodium (N.) adnascens, are the two 
most common ones covering the trunks of coconut, mango, jack, and other 
trees in Colombo and elsewhere. The small nearly circular barren fronds 
with the long tongue-like fertile ones, will at once distinguish this from any 
other of our Ceylon ferns. See notes on 173. 
202. Hemienitus cordsta. Rox. 
Bed. 1. t. 53. This is a very common road-side fern near Colombo, and 
up to 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. Its cordate barren fronds, and its singularly 
triangular fertile ones, the under side of which is covered with sori, mark 
this fern at once as distinct from any other Ceylon fern. It is very liable 
to be eaten by insects unless poisoned. 
