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South India, on the western mountains, 
particularly abundant in Coorg, rare elsewhere ; 
Ceylon, Central Provinces. 
(B) Exinvolucrate. 
Sori without an indusium. 
Trine X.—PoLypopir& 
Sori on the back of the lobes, round or rarely 
somewhat oblong. 
Desmobryoid Sertes—Habit and mode of 
growth of Aspidiez, the stipes continuous with 
the caudex ; sori generally medial on the veins. 
Genus XXXVI.—PHEGopPTERIS FEE 
(Deriv. Phegos, beech—the beech-fern.) 
Veins forked or pinnate, veinlets free. Habit 
of Lastrea, but indusium wanting. 
Phegopteris ornata Bedd. 
Caudex erect. Stipes covered with awl- 
shaped scales, or rough owing to the persistent 
bases of the scales. Fronds up to twenty feet 
long, three-pinnate ; the ultimate pinnules 
oblong, often deeply incised, their bases being 
connected by a broad wing on the tertiary 
rachis. Texture thin, herbaceous. Main and 
partial rachises rough and scaly and furnished 
with fine pointed hairs. The latter occur also 
