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wards : Khasya ; Chittagong ; Malay Peninsula.— China ; Japan ; Malay Islands ■ 

 Polynesia ; Tropical America. 



14. Microlepia speluncce, (L.) var, rhomboidea, N. Kanara, (Macpherson). — 

 Very common throughout India and Ceylon. 



15. Stenoloma chinensis, (Swartz.) N. Kanara: above ghats: Sumkund. 

 Tyagli, Nilkund, Hoolgeri, Harshikuta. (Macpherson). — Madras Presidency. 

 Western mountains. 3,000 — 6,000 feet; Himalayas, Kumaon to Bhotan; Khasya: 

 Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. — China, Japan, Polynesia, East African Islands. 



5. — Lindsay ecp. 



16. Schizoloma lobata, (Poir.) North Kanara : above ghats : Jog, (Macpher- 

 son). — Malabar and Travancore mountains; Ceylon.— Queensland ; Polynesian 

 Islands. 



17. Schizoloma ensifolia, (Swartz.) N. Kanara: above ghats: Idagoongi, 

 Nuji, Anshi, Devimunni, Sumkund, Nilkund, Hoolgeri ; below ghats : Herigooti. 

 Katgal, Honawur, Kasurgode, Bhatkal, (Macpherson) . — Deccan : Maha- 

 bleshwar, v Birdwood). — Western mountains of Madras : Ceylon ; Himalayas. 

 Sikkim to Muneypore and Chittagong up to 4,000 feet ; Burma.— North 

 Australia, Tropical Africa ; East African Islands ; Polynesia. 



18. Schizoloma heterophylla , (Dry.) North Kanara : Very common above 

 and below ghats. Fronds occasionally tripinnatifid. Specimen found at Sirsi 

 tripinnate as in Lindsaya heterophylla ( Macpherson ).• — Malabar mountains, 

 Travancore ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. — Mauritius ; Hong-kong ; Malay 

 Islands. 



6. — Pteridece. 



19. Adiantum luuulatum, (Burm.) North Kanara : Common above and 

 below ghats during the rains, dying down shortly after, (Macpherson) ; Goa 

 territory, pretty common, (Dalgado) ; Deccan : Mahableshwar, (Birdwood.) 

 Lonavli, (Gammie) ; Khaudala, (Blatter) ; Konkan : Matheran, (Birdwood.) 

 Throughout Northern India ir> moist places ; South India : general on the 

 western side in the plains and lower slopes of the hills ; Ceylon ; Burma/ — In 

 the tropics of nearly the whole world. 



20. Adiantum cnpillus veneris , (L.) Deccan : Panchgani, on wet rocks, 

 (Birdwood) ; under sheltered banks near water-courses in the Deccan, 

 Khandesh, Gujarat, Skid, (Gray). — Madras Presidency, west side, common on 

 banks of rivers in the plains, and up to 5,000 feet; Ceylon; North India. — 

 Europe ; Africa ; America ; Australia. 



21. Adiantum caudatum, (L.) Southern parts of the Presidency in the 

 higher ghats, (Gray). — Throughout India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula, in 

 the plains and on lower slopes of the hills.— South China; Malay Islands : Java: 

 Mauritius ; Tropical Africa , Cape Verde Islands. 



22. Adiantum eethiopicum, (L. ) N. Kanara : above ghats : Supa, rare 

 (Macpherson). — Nilgiri and Pulney mountains at the higher elevations : 

 Ceylon. —Australia : New Zealand ; America ; Africa ; East African Islands. 



