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short, the fertile long and narrow ; sori linear, scarcely immersed, 

 central or submarginal often at length confluent and covering the 

 whole underneath surface of the frond ; caudex wide-creeping on 

 trees. 



1. Drymoglossum carnosum. {Hook.) Rhizome long, filiform, 

 wiry, clothed with peltate lanceolate-linear toothed scales, which are 

 often hair-pointed ; stipes 2 lines to 1 inch long, distant slender ; 

 fronds simple, of two kinds, sterile one from i an inch, (and 

 then generally orbicular or sub- 

 cordate) to 2 and even 3 inches 

 long, and then elliptical or obovate 

 or spathulate, or even lanceolate 

 and acuminate, thick and fleshy, 

 coriaceous when dry, faintly cos- 

 tate on the under side ; veins an- 

 astomosing, the areoles including 

 free veinlets, fertile fronds 1-2-3- 

 inches long, linear-spathulate ob- 

 tuse : sori linear continuous form- 

 ing a line intermediate between 

 the costa and the margin, soon 

 confluent, and representing one 

 broad band, nearly as broad as 

 the frond, when young covered 

 by numerous peltate pedicellated 

 scales. Hook. Sp. Jul. v. 1S9. Nothochlrena ? (Tosnitis ?) carnosa, 



Wall. Cat. n. 138. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 55. 



Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, 2,000-5,000 feet elevation, common. 

 (Also in China and Japan.) 



2. Drymoglossum piloselloides. (Presl.) Rhizome long 

 filiform, wiry, clothed with adpressed, diamond shaped peltate laci- 

 niated scales, which are sometimes hair-pointed ; stipes about 2 lines 

 long in the sterile, often about 1 inch long in the' fertile fronds, 

 fronds dimorphous, the barren ones roundish or obovate, \ 2 inches 



N? 243 

 DRYMOGLOSSUM CARNOSUM. 



{Hook. 



