344 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
I have seen no specimen from South India, but without critical 
examination it might be passed by in the field or in the herbarium 
as quercifolia. 
7. Drynaria rigidula. (Sw.) Rhizome stout creeping, the 
edge, areoles copious, free veinlets few ; sori immersed in a single 
row half-way between the edge and midrib. S.w. Syn. Fil. 230. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 368. Drynaria diversifolia {R. Br.), Hook. Sp. Fil. 
V. 98. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 314. 
Malacca. 
(Also in tropical Australia, Malay Islands, the tropical Pacific 
Islands.) 
GENUS LXV.— PLEOPELTIS. {H. B.) 
{Plcos, full; pelfis, shield — the sori often furnished with round scales.) 
Veins copiously anastomosing, forming copious irregular areoles, 
with generally free included veinlets spreading in various directions, 
NO|92 , 
DRYNARIA RIGIDULA. {SlO.) 
the scales fibrillose dark-brown, 
fronds dimorphous, the barren 
ones sessile, 6-9 inches long, 
rarely more, 3-4 inches broad, 
cut down towards the 
rachis into blunt lobes, or rarely 
quite pinnate at the apex, the 
fertile 2-4 feet long, 12-18 
inches broad, long-stalked pin- 
nate, pinnae one inch or more 
apart, narrowed or stalked at 
the base, 6-12 inches long, 
i-f inch broad, the point acu- 
minate, the edge more or less 
deeply incised, crenate, tex- 
ture rather coriaceous ; rachis 
and both surfaces naked, 
main veins not distinct to the 
