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included veinlets inthe meshes. Fertile pinne 
more or less contracted, wholly. soriferous 
or partially covered with elongate confluent 
sori. 
Cultivated. 
Distribution: North India, Sikkim and 
Assam, Cachar and epee up to 3,000 
feet ; Burma. 
4. Gymnopteris contaminans Bedd. 
Rhizome creeping, scaly. Stipescaly. Fronds 
up to about 14 feet long, of two kinds, pin- 
nate; pinne of the barren fronds almost 
sessile, lanceolate, margin entire, slightly cre- 
nated or more deeply lobed and serrate seg- 
ments; terminal pinna more or less elongated, 
as a rule proliferous ; fertile pinne much con- 
tracted. Surfaces naked. Rachisscaly. Tex- 
ture membranaceous. Main veins conspicuous 
two-thirds of the way to the margin; meshes 
broad, those abutting of the costa without any 
included veinlets, the others including several 
veinlets which are either free with clavate 
apices or join with the mesh above. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara—common in ever-green forests, Gud- 
