TiENITIDE.SE. 

 DRYMOGLOSSUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 18.) 



DrYMOGLOSSUM CARNOSUM (Hook.) Caudex long filiform wiry clothed with peltate toothed scales, stipites 2 lines 

 to.l Inch long, (in the fertile frond) distant slender, fronds simple of two kinds ; sterile one from \ an inch, (and then generally orbicular 

 or sub-cordate) to 2 and even 3 inches long, and then elliptical or obovate or spathulate or even lanceolate and acuminate thick and 

 fleshy coriaceous when dry faintly costate on the under side, veins anastomosing, the areoles including free generally simple veinlets ; 

 fertile fronds l-2-2| inches long linear-spathulate obtuse, sori linear continuous forming a line intermediate between the costa and the 

 margin soon confluent and representing one broad band nearly as broad as the frond, when young covered by numerous peltate pedicellated 

 scales. — Var. major ; fronds 1-2 inches long, sterile ones elliptical or obovate-spathulate rarely lanceolate. — Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 189.— 

 Hook. Gen, Fil. t 78. A.— Fie Vittar. p. 29.— Nothochhena ? (Tamitis ?) carnosa, Wall Cat. n. 131.— Lemmaphyllum, Pr, Epim, BoU 

 p. 158, — Taenitis, Metten. 



The specimen figured is from Sikkim, (Dr, Thomson.) 



Hab. Nepaul, Sikkim, Loochoo Island, and Kekeat Island, Japan, a smaller form (var. minor Hooh) U formed in Japan,' 

 North China, Fort Hamilton; and Formosa. 



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