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Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, climbs to the top of the highest trees ; 

 Goa and Savantwadi. 



South India, in the plains of the West Coast 

 and up the mountains to about 3,000 teet ; 

 Ceylon ; North India, in the plains of Bengal 

 and at low elevations on the hills ; Malay 

 Peninsula South China ; Queensland ; Fiji. 



GENUS XLV POLYBOTRYA H. B. K. 



(Deriv. Poly, many ; botrys, bunch in allu- 

 sion to the fructification.) 



Fronds pinnate, bipinnatifid or almost pin- 

 nate, bipinnate ; sterile frond generally proli- 

 ferous ; fertile frond much contracted ; veins 

 pinnate, all free ; stipes adherent to rhizome. 



Polybotrya appendiculata Bedd. 



Rhizome creeping. Stipe scaly. Sterile 

 fronds often proliferous at the apex, pinnate ; 

 pinnae 25-50 pair, 2-3 inches long, ^-inch broad, 

 oblong, lanceolate, cut down, often deeply, into 

 blunt lobes with a bristle in the notch between 

 the lobes, the upper base often auricled, the 

 lower obliquely cut off. Fertile fronds much 

 contracted with the pinnae much shorter. Sur- 

 faces naked. Rachis often scaly. Texture 



