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attenuated and petioled, both sides glabrous; main veins scarcely 
more prominent than the rest, areoles with copious free veinlets ; 
sori large, in a single row, a little nearer the midrib than the margin. 
Polypodium, Wall. Cat. 303, type-sheet. Hook. Syn. Fil. 369. Bedd. 
F. S. I. 174. 
South India, common on all the Western mountains, 2,000-4,000 
feet, on rocks ; North India, from no elevation up to 4,000 feet. • 
TRIBE II.— GRAMMITIDEiE. 
Sori on the back of the lobes, more than twice as long as broad, 
usually linear. 
GENUS LXVL— NOTHOL^NA. {R. Br.) 
{Nothos, spurious ; Icsnos^ wool — the scales on back of frond pseudo- 
woolly.) 
Sori marginal, at first oblong or roundish, soon confluent into a 
continuous marginal line, without a distinct involucre, but with the 
edge of the frond frequently inflexed ; veins free ; fronds adherent 
to the caudex, pinnate or bipinnate. 
I. NoTHOLiENA Marant^. {L. tiudcr Acrosticlium.) Rhizome 
stout, horizontal, densely paleaceous with soft silky ferruginous finely 
pointed subulate scales; stipes generally stout purplish-black, 3-10 
inches long, aggregated, setosely and densely hirsute, as well as the 
rachis ; fronds 4-10 inches long, 2-2 1 inches wide, oblong-lanceolate, 
coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath densely clothed with ferruginous 
oblong-lanceolate imbricated scales, bipinnate, primary pinnae pe- 
tiolate or sessile from a broadish obtuse base, oblong-acuminate, 
pinnules not numerous, approximate, sessile, 2-3 lines long, very 
obtuse entire, upper ones confluent at the base (as are the terminal 
primary pinnae), the edge scarcely reflexed ; sori forming a broad 
border extending some way from the margin towards the costule, 
