Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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Bedd. F. B. L t. \2>' E)- conjugata, Hook. Syn. Fil. 366 {not 
Lam.) 
Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan, 1,000-4,000 feet elevation, rare, 
Khasya, 1,000-3000 feet common, Chittagong Hills, 500 feet eleva- 
tion ; Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Hong Kong and Formosa.) 
{Hook.) Rhizome woody, the scales 
2. Drynaria splendens. 
grey, fibrillose, adpressed ; 
fronds subsessile, 2-3 feet long, 
I foot or more broad, the lower 
part barren, cut down nearly 
or quite to the rachis into 
erect-patent entire acute lobes 
4-8 inches long, 1-2 inches 
broad, the upper fertile pinnae 
distant, ligulate, 4-8 inches 
long, 1-2- inch broad; main 
veins distinct, with distinct 
transverse veinlets and copious 
intermediate ones and free 
veinlets ; sori oblong or sub- 
quadrangular, filling up the 
whole of the fertile pinnae ex- 
cept the midrib. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. V. 96. Syn. Fil. 367. 
Bedd. F. B. I. t. 316. Dryostachyum, S?n. 
Singapore. 
(Also in the Philippines.) 
3. Drynaria propinqua. {Wall.) Rhizome stout, creeping, 
the scales lanceolate-linear pubescent ; fronds glabrous dimorphous, 
the barren ones 4-9 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, cut half or three- 
quarters down into bluntish or acute lobes, the fertile ones 1I-3 feet 
long, often i foot broad, with a distinct stem, the lobes 4-6 inches 
long, \-l inch broad, reaching down nearly or quite to the rachis, 
DRYNARIA SPLENDENS. 
{Hook.) 
