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Occurs in Bombay only in cultivation. 



2. Microlepia strigosa Moore 

 Frond bipinnate; pinnules oblong, rhomboidal, 

 rather bluntly toothed. Veins hairy on both 

 sides ; rest of the surface hairy or naked. 

 Rachis hairy. Indusium half cup-shaped, 

 hairy. 



Very much like M. speluncse, except that it 

 is never more than bipinnate. 



Cultivated. 



Distribution: Tinnevelly and Travancore 

 mountains, South India ; Ceylon; Himalayas ; 

 Malay Peninsula Japan; South China ; Sand- 

 wich and Fiji Islands. 



3. Microlepia speluncce Bedd. 



Rhizome short, creeping. Stipes i-ij foot 

 long. Fronds up to six or more feet long, 

 triangular to ovate, 3-4 pinnatifid. Ultimate 

 segments rhomboidal, almost entire or slightly 

 crenated (or more or less deeply cut). Surfaces 

 hairy or almost naked. Texture membranace- 

 ous. Sori half cup-shaped with the indusium 

 hairy or naked. [Fig. 15.] 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara Jog, Gersoppa Ghat, Yan ; Bombay 

 Island Sion Wood. 



