160 



DR YNARIA. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 63.) 



I>RYNARIA PROPINQUA. (Wall.) Caudex long very stout creeping densely clothed with lanceolato-subulate delicate 

 membranaceous fringed ferruginous scales, fronds coriaceo -membranaceous dimorphous ; sterile 4-6 inches and more long firm and hard 

 scarioso-membranaceous brown sessile cordato-ovate deeply pinnatifid with narrow oblong acute rarely obtuse segments ; fertile ones 

 long stipulate 1-2 feet long oblong-ovate deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid, segments 4 inches to a span or more long linear-oblong 

 acute or acuminate subentire (ooe specimen from Kfiasya deeply sinuato-pinnatifid) lowest ones distant and subdecurrent, venation mani^ 

 fest slight elevated (so as to give a sculptured character to the surface when dry) costules subreniform flexuose connected by transverse 

 vems forming 4-5 areoles of which the costal one only is soriferous, ultimate small areoles subquadrangular often with free included vein- 

 lets, sori forming only a single series close to the costa. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 97 ; Wall, Gat. n. 293.— Phymatodes Presl •— Polp Will- 

 denovii. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 156 t. 661 



The specimen figured is from Simla. 



Hab, Nepaul, Simla, Sikkim, Khasya, Assam, (5-7,000 alt.), Tropical Africa, Prince's Island, Ferando Po, 



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