182, 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, climbs to the top of the highest trees ; 
Goa and Savantwadi. 
South India, in the plains of the West Coast 
and up the mountains to about 3,000 feet; 
Ceylon ; North India, in the plains of Bengal 
and at low elevations on the hills; Malay 
Peninsula—South China; Queensland; Fiji. 
Genus XLV.—Potysotrya H. B. K. 
(Deriv. Poly, many ; botrys, bunch—in allu- 
sion to the fructification.) 
Fronds pinnate, bipinnatifid or almost pin- 
nate, bipinnate; sterile frond generally proli- 
ferous ; fertile frond much contracted; veins 
pinnate,.all free ; stipes adherent to rhizome. 
Polybotrya appendiculata Bedd. 
Rhizome creeping. Stipe scaly. Sterile 
fronds often proliferous at the apex, pinnate ;_ 
pinne 25-50 pair, 2-3 inches long, 4-inch broad, 
oblong, lanceolate, cut down, often deeply, into 
blunt lobes with a bristle in the notch between 
the lobes, the upper base often auricled, the 
lower obliquely cut off. Fertile fronds much 
contracted with the pinne much shorter. Sur- 
faces naked. Rachis often scaly. Texture 
