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obscurely serrated, texture subcoriaceous ; main veins of the fertile 

 fronds ramifying, not carried in distinct parallel lines to the margin, 

 areoles copious, the free veinlets few and variously directed ; sori in 

 a single row near the midrib, placed at the point of union of several 

 veinlets. Wall. Cat. 293. Hook. Syn. Fil. 367. Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 160. Pleopeltis Parishii, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 125. 



Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation, 

 Khasya, very common ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Java.) 



4. Drynaria mollis. {Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 

 with subulate golden transparent ciliated scales ; fronds firm-mem- 

 branaceous dimorphous ; sterile ones 4-6 inches long, sessile ovate 

 glabrous, deeply pinnatifid with the sinuses very narrow and the 

 segments sometimes overlapping each other, fertile fronds very 

 shortly stipitate (the dwarfed lower segments often extending nearly 

 to the base of the rachis), ovate-lanceolate up to 1 \ feet long, 2-4 

 inches broad, furnished with soft hairs on both sides and ciliated, 

 deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid, segments lanceolate 1-2 inches 

 long, $— | inch broad, nearly horizontal, rather distant, the sinus being 

 very broad, the lower ones dwarfed and gradually reduced to a de- 

 current wing ; venation very prominent in the sterile fronds, but 

 much less so in the fertile ones than in D. propinqua ; veins form- 

 ing three or four series of rather regular areoles in which are some- 

 times included free veinlets ; sori forming only a single series close 

 to the costa, each sorus being on the vein between the first and 

 second areole. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 216. Polyp. (Drynaria) rivale, Mett. 

 in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 367, a later name. 



Himalayas, Nynee Tal, Gurwhal, Kumaon, 6,000-9,000 feet 

 elevation. 



5. Drynaria quercifolia. (Z.) Rhizome creeping, short, 

 stout, densely clothed with red-brown satiny lanceolate-subulate soft 

 scales, which have a cordate base, and are \-\ inch long ; fronds 

 1 oriaceous or subcoriaceous of two kinds, sterile ones varying in 



