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The following are species which have been attributed to Cejdon, but are now either 
discarded or doubtful:— 
56. Davallia (Microlepia) Marginalis. —No specimen of this species from Ceylon exists in 
the herbarium in Kew, nor is it known in Ceylon. There does not appear to be any 
authority for regarding it as a Ceylon species. 
5. Pteris Pellucida, Presl.—The specimen from Ceylon in the Kew Herbarium under this 
name is undoubtedly P. Hookeriana, Agardh. 
7. Nephrodium (Lastr^a) Cuspidatum, Baker.—Of this fern there is a specimen at Kew, sent 
by Dr. Gardner, numbered 1256, respecting which there must be some mistake, as that 
number is represented in the Peradeniya Herbarium by a plant of another genus, 
Mangifera Indica. All the other specimens are Himalayan, and it is worthy of remark 
that the specimen figured by Beddome, pi. 118 of his ‘Ferns of British India,’ though 
grown in Khasiya, was received by him from the Ceylon Herbarium! The plant is 
certainly Himalayan, and is not now known in Ceylon. 
16. Pteris Semipinnata, L. —The specimen from Cejdon in the Kew Herbarium under this name 
is undoubtedly one of the numerous varieties of P. Quadriaurita, Betz. 
180. Nephrodium Abortivum, J. Sm.—There seems to be no authority for attributing this fern 
to Cejdon. 
71. Polypodium (Goniopteris) Lineatum, Coleb.—There is a solitary and verj r imperfect 
specimen of this fern at Peradeniya, but it is otherwise unknown in Cejdon. There is a 
specimen at Kew from Mrs. Walker; but, as no specimen has been found by Dr. Thwaites 
and his indefatigable collectors, nor by anj' living collector, it can scarcely be included 
amongst existing Cejdon species. 
189. Polypodium Parvulum, Bory.—The plants which have been so called are now referred to 
Repandulum and Minutum. 
167. Polypodium Fuscatum, Bl., is represented at Kew bj r a specimen from Cejdon with the 
C. P. number, 1289, which is the number properly belonging to P. Glandulosum. There is 
some mistake here, and the species Fuscatum is not known by that or any other number at 
Peradeniya. 
Pol. (Nipii.) Acrostichoides, Forst.— A specimen from Ceylon of this species, at Kew, is 
four feet long by about half an inch wide, and fertile for a great part of its length. It is 
highly improbable that a fern of such remarkable character should have escaped the 
observation of all living collectors; nor is it likely that such a species would have been 
exterminated by the extensive coffee clearings. It seems more probable that it is not 
a Cejdon species, and that Gardner’s specimen of this fern, like that of N. Cuspidatum, 
came from some other country. 
Pol. (Phym.) Heterocarpum, Bl.—It is possible that this fern has been mistaken for 
P. Membranaceuui, as they run very closely into each other. It is not known by Dr. 
Thwaites. 
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