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obscurely serrated, texture subcoriaceous ; main veins of the fertile 
fronds ramifying, not carried in distinct parallel lines to the margin, 
areoles copious, the free veinlets few and variously directed ; sori in 
a single row near the midrib, placed at the point of union of several 
veinlets. Wall. Cat. 293. Hook. Syn. Fil. 367. Bedd. F. B. I. 
t. 160. Pleopeltis Parishii, Bedd. F. B. I. t. 12^. 
Himalayas, from Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet elevation, 
Khasya, very common ; Birma and Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Java.) 
4. Drynaria mollis. {Bedd.) Rhizome creeping, clothed 
with subulate golden transparent ciUated scales ; fronds firm-mem- 
branaceous dimorphous ; sterile ones 4-6 inches long, sessile ovate 
glabrous, deeply pinnatifid with the sinuses very narrow and the 
segments sometimes overlapping each other, fertile fronds very 
shortly stipitate (the dwarfed lower segments often extending nearly 
to the base of the rachis), ovate-lanceolate up to i ^ feet long, 2-4 
inches broad, furnished with soft hairs on both sides and ciliated, 
deeply almost to the rachis pinnatifid, segments lanceolate 1-2 inches 
long, |— I inch broad, nearly horizontal, rather distant, the sinus being 
very broad, the lower ones dwarfed and gradually reduced to a de- 
current wing ; venation very prominent in the sterile fronds, but 
much less so in the fertile ones than in D. propinqua ; veins form- 
ing three or four series of rather regular areoles in which are some- 
times included free veinlets ; sori forming only a single series close 
to the costa, each sorus being on the vein between the first and 
second areole. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 216. Polyp. (Drynaria) rivale, Metf. 
in Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 367, a later name. 
Himalayas, Nynee Tal, Gurwhal, Kumaon, 6,000-9,000 feet 
elevation. 
5. Drynaria quercifolia. (Z.) Rhizome creeping, short, 
stout, densely clothed with red-brown satiny lanceolate-subulate soft 
scales, which have a cordate base, and are \-\ inch long ; fronds 
coriaceous or subcoriaceous of two kinds, sterile ones varying i>i 
