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axils giving rise to new plants. These fronds 
are always sterile. Others are not so long and 
~ have longer bluntly lobed or crenated pinne. 
Rachis and lower surface often slightly hairy. 
Texture herbaceous to almost leathery. Vein- 
lets fine, 6-10 on each side anastomosing at 
an angle with an ex-current veinlet connecting 
the angles. Sori medial, fine, oblong or even 
confluent in age (meniscoid). 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Jog, Birchi, Kalinadi, Supa, Anmode 
(in a stream), Kadra. Growing in the beds of 
rivers, Dharwar District, banks of a stream 
near Kunamalihalli; Konkan. _ 
Throughout .the Indian region in the plains 
or low down in. the hills——North Australia ; 
Tropical and South Africa and its Islands ; 
Philippines ; New Caledonia ; South China. 
Evemobryoid Series—Stipes articulated 
with the rhizome: Sori generally, not always, 
terminal on the veins. 
Genus XXXVIII._—NipHopoLus Kaur. 
(Deriv. Gr, Nzphos, of snow ; bolus, a large 
scale—in allusion to ‘the snowlike scales and 
large sori.) 
