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membranous, about 8 or 12 in. long and 1 in. broad, the apex finely 
acuminated, the terminal one deeply pinnatifid with numerous narrow 
lobes, sinuses open and much nearer the costule than the apex of 
lobes. Sori very few, often only 3 or 4, and confined to the apex of 
segment. Indusium orbicular-reniform. | 
Hab.: Tropical Queensland. 
A. Molle, Sw. On Plate No. 132 is represented a peculiar growth 
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ordinary form. 
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Hab. : Musgrave, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. 
®. (Orynaria) quercifolium, Linn., var. Linnei. ret 3 
of the rhizome about 1 or 2 lines long, broadly-ovate, with a a0 
acumen from a peltate base. Fronds very rigid. Sori small, scatters 
copious, and not showing pustules on the upper side of the frond. 
Hab.: Common along the tropical coast. ynopsis 
For all other descriptive characters of these Drynaria-Polypodiums pain 
f the Queensland Flora, p. 7 18, where also it will be observed that in my ‘ein 
non-articulate pinne onl n em e ured form of the 
stipular, usuall ile fronds, which the present plant produced also; ‘culate 
these green o ear sori, and the pinne then not be found to disart 
the brown, sessile, stipular frond produced by P. rigidulum and P. queretf olinm 
all their varieties, while on Plate 165 is represented an extreme form of the sam 
A. sorbifolium, Zinn, var. leptocarpum. Sterile a ; 
