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plains and up to 3,000 feet ; Malay Peninsula. 

 China ; Malay Islands ; North Australia ; 

 Polynesia ; Southern and Central Africa and 

 its islands. 



Also cultivated. 



6. Pleopeltis phymatodes Bedd. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, woody and clothed 

 with dark brown hair-like scales. Stipes 3-12 

 inches or more long, firm, erect, smooth. Fronds 

 6 inches to 3 feet long, varying from simple 

 oblong-lanceolate to deeply pinnatifid lobes, 

 numerous, entire, acuminate, lanceolate, oblong, 

 4-8 inches long by i-ij inches broad. Texture 

 leathery. Both surfaces naked. Main veins 

 not distinct, areoles fine with free veinlets. 

 Sori large, rather sunk in one or two rows, 

 scattered. 



Commonly cultivated ; often grown in hang- 

 ing baskets. 



Distribution : Ceylon ; Malabar and Travan- 

 core, cultivated only (?) ; Malay Peninsula. 

 Throughout the tropics of the old world, the 

 continent of India excepted. 



TRIBE XI. GRAMMITIDE^E 

 Sori on the back of the lobes, more than 

 twice as long as broad, usually linear. 



