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Distribution ; Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, Karwar on trees ; Konkan jungles ; 

 Vetora (Savant wadi State) on trees and rocks ; 

 Goa and Savantwadi ; Bombay Islands, Sion 

 Wood on mango tree; Salsette, Bandara Hill 

 on mango trees. 



Throughout India from the plains up to 4,500 

 feet ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. China ; Fiji ; 

 Mascareen Islands ; Cameroon Mountains. 



GKNUS XXXIX. DRYNARIA BORY 



(Deriv. Dryads, the sterile fronds resembling 

 oak-leaves, a tree sacred to the Dryads.) 



Rhizome short, thick and fleshy. Fronds 

 rigid, the sterile when present like an oak-leaf ; 

 fertile frond pinnatifid or pinnate, rarely simple. 

 Veins copiously anastomosing forming square 

 or hexagonal areoles. Sori small, round or oval, 

 numerous. 



Drynaria quercifolia Bory 

 Rhizome short, thick and fleshy, densely 

 coated with red- brown hair- margined scales 

 which are cordate at the base. Fronds of two 

 kinds : the sterile ones smaller, becoming brown 

 with age, cordate ovate, variously lobed, some- 

 times shallowly, sometimes rather deeply, 



