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plains and up to 3,000 feet; Malay Peninsula — 
China; Malay Islands; North Australia; 
Polynesia ; Southern and Central Africa and 
its islands. 
Also cultivated. 
6. Pleopeltis phymatodes Bedd. 
Rhizome wide-creeping, woody and clothed 
with dark brown hair-like scales. Stipes 3-12 
inches or more long, firm, erect,smooth. Fronds 
6 inches to 3 feet long, varying from simple 
oblong-lanceolate to deeply pinnatifid lobes, 
numerous, entire, acuminate, lanceolate, oblong, 
4-8 inches long by 1-14 inches broad. Texture 
leathery. Both surfaces naked. Main veins 
not distinct, areoles fine with free veinlets. 
Sori large, rather sunk in one or two rows, 
' scattered. 
Commonly cultivated ; often grown in hang- 
ing baskets. 
Distribution : Ceylon; Malabar and Travan- 
core, cultivated only (?); Malay Peninsula 
Throughout the tropics of the old world, the 
continent of India excepted. 
Trise XI.—GRAMMITIDEE 
Sori on the back of the lobes, more than 
twice as long as broad, usually linear. 
