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at Kodinkarnel on the Pulney mountains and are found growing from the 
same caudex with the usual sterile fronds. I have never met with anything 
like them elsewhere, though I have searched very carefully in many localities. 
Mr. Fairbank, of the American Mission, first drew my attention to them, I 
have thought them well worth figuring in this work as they might be taken 
for some new species of Loxogramma if they got into herbaria apart from the 
normal form.” The foregoing notes with a careful examination of a complete 
suit of specimens collected from all parts of Ceylon will, I believe, prove that 
all our Ceylon forms belong to one species. The difference between the large 
piunatifid fern referred to above, and a beautiful grass-like fern discovered 
by G. Wall Esq. in Morawaka, with a single set of arched veinlets along the 
costule, is so great that if seen without the intermediate forms, it might 
be supposed that no two species of a genus could be more distinct, but I 
fear the connecting links are too evident to allow of their separation. I have 
never yet seen the fertile fronds of our Ceylon plants expanded, they look 
always like pieces of whip-cord or pack-thread. See 210/2. 
208/1. Acros ichum (Gymnopteris) metallic), Bedd. 
Bed. 11. (Supt.)t. 390. Fronds quite sessile 3-7 inches long up to nearly 
1 inch broad of a deep shining metallic color, fertile fronds only soriferous 
towards the apex. Ceylon in dense moist forests on the Haycock mountain 
growing on rocks. This is intermediate between Wallii and true lanceo- 
lata and is, I believe, only a variety of the latter ; it is a very beautiful plant. 
Beddome. 
I found this fern in abundance on the surface of rocks on the side of 
a stream at Hewissa. It is, I suppose, a form of lanceolata. 
209. Acrostichum (Gymnopteris) quercifoliam, Retz. 
Bed. 1. t. 47. The oak-leaved fern. This is one of the most common ferns 
found on the sides of cabook cuttings or growing on cabook walls near Colombo 
and elsewhere in the Western Province. It is often intermixed with Hemi- 
onitis cordata, Adiantum caudatum, &c. It is a tiny fern with its barren 
oak-like leaves growing flat on the ground generally. It is often found lining 
the insides of wells near Colombo. 
210. Acrostichum (Cyrtogonium) crispatulura, Wall,, 
Bed. 1. t. 202, as Poecilopteris repanda, J. Sm., but said to be P. conta- 
minans, Wall. Bed. 11. t. 115? as P. costata var. undulata, Hook, abnormal 
form. The fern I here refer to is C. P. 3075, and as I have no doubt this 
is the one described by Smith in Smith and Moore’s Exotic cultivated ferns, at 
p. 48 under the genus Cyrtogonium, I shall quote the description entire : — 
“ Cyrtogonium crispatulum, J. Sm. (Acrostichum Wall.). Avery handsome 
evergreen stove fern, from Ceylon. Fronds rather erect, somewhat lanceolate, 
broad at the base, acfcuminale, pinnate, one to two feet long, deep green ; 
pinnae linear-acuminate, petiolate, glabrous, undulated, the margin Crenate, 
with a row of spinulose teeth, one to each marginal sinus. Fertile fronds 
erect, pinnate one foot high; pinnae narrow, and petiolate. Both forms are 
latteral, with a scaly stipes, adherent to a creeping, scaly rhizome. ” 
The spinulose teeth in each marginal sinus are most apparent in C. P. 
3075, from Pera^eniya herbarium, and thus but for the difference in venation 
connecting it with Egenolfia, but on my own larger and more undulated spe- 
cimens collected in Kallibokka, they are generally wanting. 
This is doubtless “A (Gymnoptiris) virens Wall. var. b. A crispatulum, 
Wall. ; pinnae narrow, coriaceous, crisped, the veins anastomosing principally 
in costal arches,” Syn. Fil. p. 420. 
It has been mixed up in A. virens with C. P. 1313, which is surely a 
distinct species. Beddome at 11. t. 270 remarks : Sir Wm. Hooker unites 1. 
t. 202, the coutaminaus of Wall, with terminans, 1. t. 203, of the same bo- 
tanist, under the name of virens , they are however, very distinct species.’ 
