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dhali near Karwar, Castle Rock, in shady 
woods ; Vetora (Savantwadi) ; Matheran. 
- South India, in the western coast forests 
from the plains up to 4,000 feet; Ceylon; 
East Bengal, the lower hills up to 4,000 feet. 
Burma. 
5. Gymnopterts subcrenata Bedd. 
Rhizome creeping, scaly. Stipe scaly. 
Fronds 1-4 feet long, of two kinds, pinnate ; 
pinne of sterile fronds stalked, lanceolate, 
acuminate, margin sinuate or wavy, serrated 
towards the apex, terminal pinna the longest 
and proliferous; fertile pinne much con- 
tracted. Surfaces glabrous. Texture almost 
leathery. Main veins close and conspicuous 
almost to the margin, the veinlets anastomosing 
at right angles from which proceed one 
or two generally free veinlets with clavate 
apices. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara—common in ever-green forests, Castle 
Rock, in shady woods and on banks of streams, 
Gersoppa Road; Mahableshwar; Matheran ; 
Khandala, ravine behind Coona in thick forest ; 
Kodawli (Rajapur); Amba (Manoli torest) ; 
Thana District, Sasamghar forest (Bassein). 
