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hairy. Texture as a rule leathery. Sori on the 

 edge of the lobes, nearly round. [Fig. 20.] 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency Southern 

 parts in the higher Ghats ; Purandhar ; Satara 

 district, Shirgaon Ghat ; Nasik district, Lena 

 Hill ; Khandesh, north slope of Chanseli. 



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. 



Also cultivated. 



The variety edgeworthii Bedd. of Northern 

 India, with the pinnae and rachis naked and 

 pinnae less cut, has been recorded by Lowe in 

 his Ferns, British and Exotic, to occur in Sind ; 

 elsewhere in the Presidency it has not yet been 

 found. 



3. Adiantum peruvianum Klotzch 



Stipe 6-g inches long, strong, erect, black 

 polished, naked. Fronds simply pinnate, or 

 the lower branches again pinnate or bipinnate ; 

 ultimate pinnules two inches or more broad, i J 

 inches deep, obliquely ovate, base wedge-shaped, 

 apex often long, pointed, upper and outer sides 



