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free marginal clavate veinlets. Sori linear- 
oblong. Indusium sausage-shaped, quite cover- 
ing the sorus and bursting irregularly down the 
centre. 
Allantodia javantca Bedd. 
Fronds up to 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 
pinnate; pinne 4-8 inches long, 1-1? inches 
broad, unequal at base to a fine acumination. 
Veins anastomosing, forming elongated areoles 
oneither side of the midrib and smaller ones 
near the margin. Sori sausage-shaped, bursting 
irregularly down the centre. [Fig. 37-f.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, in moist places along the ghats. 
Nepal and Bhotan, 4,000-7,000 feet; Khasya, 
Makir Hills ;, Ceylon—Java ; Samoa. 
Genus XXVI.—Actiniopteris Link 
(Deriv. Actin, rays ; pteris, a fern.) 
Fronds fan-like, sori placed on each side of 
the narrow segment of the frond, linear, elongat- 
ed, opening towards the midrib. 
Actimiopterts dichotoma Bedd. 
Stipes densely tufted arising from an oblique. 
caudex, scaly. Fronds like the leaves of a minia- 
ture palm (Chamerops); segments dichoto- 
