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included veinlets in the meshes. Fertile pinnae 

 more or less contracted, wholly soriferous 

 or partially covered with elongate confluent 

 sori. 



Cultivated. 



Distribution : North India, Sikkim and 

 Assam, Cachar and Chittagong up to 3,ooo 

 feet ; Burma. 



4. Gymnopteris contaminant Bedd. 



Rhizome creeping, scaly. Stipe scaly. Fronds 

 up to about i^ feet long, of two kinds, pin- 

 nate ; pinnae of the barren fronds almost 

 sessile, lanceolate, margin entire, slightly cre- 

 nated or more deeply lobed and serrate seg- 

 ments ; terminal pinna more or less elongated, 

 as a rule proliferous ; fertile pinnae much con- 

 tracted. Surfaces naked. Rachis scaly. Tex- 

 ture membranaceous. Main veins conspicuous 

 two-thirds of the way to the margin ; meshes 

 broad, those abutting of the costa without any 

 included veinlets, the others including several 

 veinlets which are either free with clavate 

 apices or join with the mesh above. 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara common in ever-green forests, Gud- 



