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Distribution; Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Karwar on trees; Konkan jungles ; 
Vetora (Savantwadi State) on trees and rocks; 
Goa and Savantwadi; Bombay Islands, Sion 
Wood on mango tree; Salsette, Bandara Hill 
on mango trees. 
Throughout India from the plains up to 4,500 
feet ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula.—China ; Fiji; 
Mascareen Islands ; Cameroon Mountains. 
Genus XXXIX.—Drvynaria Bory. 
(Deriv. Dyryads, the sterile fronds resembling. 
oak-leaves, a tree sacred to the Dryads.) 
Rhizome short, thick and fleshy. Fronds 
rigid, the sterile when present like an oak-leaf ; 
fertile frond pinnatifid or pinnate, rarely simple. 
Veins copiously anastomosing forming square 
or hexagonal areoles. Sori small, round or oval, 
numerous. 
Drynaria quercifolia Bory 
Rhizome short, thick and fleshy, densely 
coated with red-brown hair-margined scales 
which are cordate at the base. Fronds of two 
kinds : the sterile ones smaller, becoming brown 
with age, cordate ovate, variously lobed, some- 
times shallowly, sometimes rather deeply, 
