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winged above. Frond 2-8 inches long, 1-3 

 inches broad, not crisped, ovate, oblong, three- 

 pinnatiftd, main rachis winged ; lower pinnae 

 divided to the winged rachis into several 

 pinnules, on each side, the lowest of which are 

 pinnatihd, with the segments linear. Son more 

 or less terminal on the segments ; indusium 

 distinctly two-valved, the valves ovate or 

 rounded. [Fig. 10.] 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency Castle 

 Rock. 



Western. Ghats of the Madras Presidency ; 

 Ceylon ; Himalayas and Khasya mountains, 

 4,000-12,000 feet ; Burma. 



GENUS VI. TRICHOMANES SMITH 



("Deriv. Thrix, hair ; mauos, soft.) 

 Sori always terminating a vein, more or less 

 sunk in the frond ; indusium tubular or slightly 

 two-lipped ; receptacle elongated, columnar, 

 often considerably protruding beyond the 

 mouth of the indusium. 



(a) Fronds entire below, palmate or digi- 

 tate above. 



i. T. kurzii. 



