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long, 6-9 inches broad ; pinnules \-\ inch broad, 

 straight, almost wedge-shaped or rounded at 

 the base and deeply lobed upper border ; rachis 

 and surfaces naked. Texture thin, herbaceous. 

 Sori roundish or transversely oblong. 



Like Adiantum capillus veneris, but the 

 pinnules are broadly wedge-shaped at the base. 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, Supa, rare. 



Nilgiri and Pulney mountains at the higher 

 elevations; Ceylon. Australia; New Zealand; 

 America ; Africa ; East African Islands. 



10. Adiantum cutteatum Langs, and Fisch. 



Stipe 6-9 inches long, slender, black, naked, 

 polished. Frond up to 18 inches long, 6-9 

 inches broad, triangular, 3-4 pinnate ; pinnules 

 J | inch broad, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 rounded at the outer edge with crenated lobes ; 

 rachis and surfaces naked. Texture thin. Sori 

 4-6 on a pinnule situated in hollows of the 

 lobes, indusium kidney-shaped. [Fig. 28.] 



Distribution : Brazil. 



Very common in cultivation and runs into 

 many varieties, very difficult to identify. 



