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DRYNARIA (See Ferns of S, India, p. 63.) 



1. DfiYNARIA CORONANS (Wall.) Caudes thick, creeping, branched and interwoven, villoso-paleaeeous with aureo-niteni 

 scales, fronds large, uniform when growing arranged in a circle, firm, coriaceo-membranaceous, but rather thin and translucent 2 and 

 more feet long, from a broad sessile cordate, lobato-pinnatifid base, (then suddenly contracted), lanceolate deeply almost to the rachis 

 pinnatifid, segments 8-12 inches long, f to 1 inch and more wide, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones gradually shorter entire 

 mcrassated at the margin, venation very manifest, costules parallel extending to the margin, these are connected by transverse veins 

 formmg 5-6 sonferous areoles and then again generally two or three others which include free veinlets, sori oval, often confluent longitu- 

 dinally, solitary in the primary areoles, forming an excentric series always nearer one costule than the opposite one.-Hook Sp Fil. 

 v. 91 } -Wall. Cat. n. 288 -,-Metten. Polyp, p. 121 t. 40, 41, (venation) ,—Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 91 ;-Phymatodes Fr. — Drynaria 

 J 8m, /— Var. sori of the series confluent ;— Polyp, contiguum, Wall, in Herb. Hook (not Cat, n. 285.; 



The specimen figured is from Moulmein (Capt. the Honorable J. Dormer.) -flux^t i<^ ^ ^ , C$^M. 



Hab, Nepaul, Kumaon, Assam, Sikkim, Khasya, Mishmee, Moulmein, Hongkong. 



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