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short, the fertile long and narrow ; sori linear, scarcely immersed, 
central or submarginal often at length confluent and covering the 
whole underneath surface of the frond ; caudex wide-creeping on 
trees. 
I. Drymoglossum carnosum. {Hook.) Rhizome long, filiform, 
wiry, clothed with peltate lanceolate-linear toothed scales, which are 
often hair-pointed ; stipes 2 lines to i inch long, distant slender ; 
fronds simple, of two kinds, sterile one from ^ an inch, (and 
then generally orbicular or sub- 
by numerous peltate pedicellated 
scales. Hook. Sp. Fil.v. 189. Nothochlsena ? (Taenitis ?) carnosa, 
Wall. Cat. 11. 138. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 55. 
Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, 2,000-5,000 feet elevation, common. 
(Also in China and Japan.) 
2. Drymoglossum piloselloides. {Presl.) Rhizome long 
filiform, wiry, clothed with adpressed, diamond shaped peltate laci- 
niated scales, which are sometimes hair-pointed ; stipes about 2 lines 
long in the sterile, often about i inch long in the" fertile fronds, 
fronds dimorphous, the barren ones roundish or obovate, \-2 inches 
cordate) to 2 and even 3 inches 
long, and then elliptical or obovate 
or spathulate, or even lanceolate 
and acuminate, thick and fleshy, 
coriaceous when dry, faintly cos- 
tate on the under side ; veins an- 
astomosing, the areoles including 
free veinlets, fertile fronds 1-2^ 
inches long, linear-spathulate ob- 
tuse ; sori linear continuous form- 
ing a line intermediate between 
the costa and the margin, soon 
confluent, and representing one 
broad band, nearly as broad as 
the frond, when young covered 
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N? 243 
DRYMOGLOSSUM CARNOSUM. [Hook.) 
