58. Pfceris longifolia, Linn. 
Bed. 1. t. 33. Th waites gives Oova and Dumbara districts as the habitat 
for this fern, and Major Hutchison, has given me very large specimens, 2 to 
3 feet long, collected by him about a mile above Wilson’s Bungalow, on banks 
on the road side. It cannot be confounded with any other Ceylon Fern. It 
is found in Tropical and warm temperate regions all round the world. 
59. Pteris cretica, Linn. 
Bed. 1. t. 39, Not good. Thwaites has this fern, C. P. No. 3502, from the 
Oova district, and gives P. Hookeriana, C. P. No. 1329. from Saffragam, as 
only a variety of it. Baker does not give Ceylon as a habitat for P. cretica, but 
states that P. pellucida, Presl; Bed. 1. t. 38, is a Ceylon fern, “but not satis- 
factorily distinct from P. cretica,” whilst he gives Hookeriana, Agardh from 
about 2,000 feet near Adam’s Peak as a distinct species. Thwaites’s C. P, P?o. 
3502 agrees upon the whole with European spebimens of P. cretica, and is very 
different from Bed. 1. t. 39, which is not a good figure of any form known 
to me. The figure on the right hand side is likely for the form P. digitata, 
Walk My specimens of P. cretica, are from Hackgalla, and Major Hutchison 
got this fern, Adiantum Capillus-veneris, and Asplenium varians from the road 
side below Hackalla. My specimens of this fern and of P. Hookeriana seem 
quite distinct, and can scarcely he confounded with each other. 
60. Pteris Hookeriana, Agardh. 
Bed. 1. t. 40. Not good. This is a very abundant fern in the forest of 
Kahatudua, near Porey, about 13 miles from Colombo, and I believe it is quite 
distinct from P. cretica. Bed. 1. t. 38. P, (pellucida) is surely for a young plant 
of this species. His fig 1. t. 40. is taken from a very stunted and bad specimen, 
and not characteristic for our Ceylon Fern. My Porey, specimens are from 1^ 
to 3 feet long, with the pinnm of the barren fronds very broad. It is a large 
and more coriacious fern than P. cretica. See my remarks on 59. — N. B. that 
some of our common forms of P. 4 — aurita are very like P. cretica. — See my 
Introductory remarks. 
61. Pteris crenata, Sw« 
Bed. 1. t. 35. This is one of the ferns collected by Paul Hermann, in Ceylon 
in 1660, and is well figured in Burmann’s Theasaurus zeylanicus, at t. 87. 
This is one of our most common Ferns, growing in shady places and along 
road sides in the warmer parts of the Island. 
62. Pteris quadrianhita, Betz. 
Bed. 1 tt. 31, 41, 43, 44, and 219, Bed. lit. 89. — I have prePy well ex- 
hausted what I have to say about this fern in my introductory remarks, pp. 
7-9, but I find I omitted to quote Bed. 1 t. 43 for P. longipinnula, of Wallich. 
I can see no difference whatever between this figure and several specimens in 
my possession of P. quadriaurita. 
I find that I quoted Bed. 1 t. 40, at p, 8 instead of 1. t. 41. This is the 
most common and most variable fern in Ceylon, and is much affected according 
to soil and exposure. 
I have several specimens taken from a fern brought from the neighbourhood 
of Mutton Button and grown by me in Colombo, which are very different 
from any others 1 have seen. It is a delicate and handsome fern, with long 
narrow pinnules, and having the lower pinnrn bipinnated, agreeing better for the 
term qndriaurita than any I have seen. See my remarks on No. 65. The variety 
B. argentea, with white mottled fronds has been found in Ceylon. The fern above 
referred to from Mutton Button, and grown in Colombo, is pronounced by Mr 
Wall after a careful examination of some of my specimens, to be my No. 66. 
Pteris ('Campteria) patens, Hk. 
63. Pteris pellucens, Agardh. 
Bed. 1 t. 32. C. P. 3945. Discovered since the publication of Enutn. Plant. 
Zeyl. Found in a belt of Forest in the Borders Estate Matella, Specimens 
