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numerous, united into smaller areoles, but varying in size and form and including numerous free divaricating veinlets more or less impressed, 
and forming pustules at the back, sori often very large, oval or globose, compital either forming a single or double series between the costa 
and the margin, or irregularly scattered over the frond. //oo/i-. Sp. FiJ. v, p. 83; — Polypodium phymatodes, Linn. Maut., ji. 360 Dry- 
naria, Fee ; — Chi-ysopteris peltideum, longipes rtwcZ terminalis, Linl: (fide Metten); — Polypodium ensiforme, Kze. in Schl: Fil. t. 54,/. a ; — 
Polyp, alternifolium, Lk. ; — Polyp, grossum, Langsd. and Fisck, j). 9 t. S ; — Drynaria vulgaris, J. Sm. ; — Phymatodes, PresL 
Malabar, at no great elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXXIII. 
2, PleoiKltis Iciorhiza. (Wallich.) Caudex very thick, creeping, paleaceous with ovate oppressed deciduous peltate scales, stipites 
\h and more feet long, stout, fronds ample, subcoriaceo-membranaceous glabrous, 2-3 feet long oblong or oblong-ovate pinnated, pinn« 
10-12-30, erecto-patent 8-12 inches and more long, oblongo-lanceolate much and very finely acuminated, cuneate and slightly petioled 
superior ones sessile and sub-decurrent, terminal one very long, the margins entire, venation manifest uniform, costules scarcely 
distinct from the veins, but they do anastomose, so as to form large costal soriferous areoles, and a less imperfect series near the margin, 
the rest of the frond is occupied by a net-work of small areoles, including free veinlets, sori large in a single series nearer the co.sta than 
the margin, moderately sunk, so as to form slightly elevated corresponding pustules on the back of the frond. Hook, Sp, Fil v, p. 91 ; — 
Polypodium leiorliizon, Wall. Cat. n. 303. 
Anamallays, on the Kooch Mallay 4,300 feet elevation. 
PLATE No. CLXXIV. 
