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axils giving rise to new plants. These fronds 

 are always sterile. Others are not so long and 

 have longer bluntly lobed or crenated pinnae. 

 Rachis and lower surface often slightly hairy. 

 Texture herbaceous to almost leathery. Vein- 

 lets fine, 6-iG on each side anastomosing at 

 an angle with an ex-cuirent veinlet connecting 

 the angles. Sori medial, fine, oblong or even 

 confluent in age (meniscoid). 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, Jog, Birchi, Kalinadi, Supa, Anmode 

 (in a stream), Kadra. Growing in the beds of 

 rivers, Dharwar District, banks of a stream 

 near Kunamalihalli ; Konkan. 



Throughout the Indian region in the plains 

 or low down in the hills. North Australia ; 

 Tropical and South Africa and its Islands ; 

 Philippines ; New Caledonia ; South China. 



Eremobryoid Series. Stipes articulated 

 with the rhizome : Sori generally, not always, 

 terminal on the veins. 



GENUS XXXVIII. NIPHOBOLUS KAULF. 



(Deriv. Gr. Nipkos, of snow ; bolus, a large 

 scale in allusion to the snowlike scales and 

 large sori.) 



