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narrow linear lobes which widen suddenly on 

 both sides within a short distance of the base r 

 lobes serrate where sterile, lower pinnae often 

 divided two or three times. Surfaces naked. 

 Texture almost leathery. Veins usually once 

 forked. [Fig. 34.] 



This fern is rarely found in cultivation in 

 the Presidency. 



Distribution : Madras Presidency Carcoor 

 Ghat, Wynaad and Travancore hills, 2,000 

 5,000 feet; Ceylon, Dodawilla, Matele and 

 Mooroowa forests above 2,000 feet eleva- 

 tion Borneo, Philippines and Society Islands. 



7. Pteris wallichiana Ag. 



Stipe 5-6 feet long, strong, bright, chestnut 

 brown, naked, glossy. Frond divided into three 

 parts, the lateral ones again forked ; the central 

 one often 2 feet long, i foot broad, pinnate ; 

 pinnules sessile, 4-6 inches long, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid ; segments 

 about -inch long, linear lance-shaped, blunt at 

 the apex, finely serrate when sterile. Surfaces 

 naked. Rachis like the stipe. Texture her- 

 baceous. Basal veins uniting in pairs into an 

 arch, the rest free. The arching of the veins is 



