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Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara. 



Madras Presidency, western mountains ; 

 Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. Australia ; South 

 Africa and its islands ; Polynesia. 



4. Asplenium unilatcrale Lam. 



Stipes scattered, naked, dark-brown, polished 

 or grey. Fronds 6-15 inches long, pinnate ; 

 pinnse 1-3 inches long, J-i inch broad, unequal 

 sided, two-thirds of the lower half being entirely 

 cut away, the upper half of the base narrowed 

 at a right angle ; margin incised except at the 

 portion where it has been cut off. Texture 

 thinly herbaceous. 



Though the type is not found in the Presi- 

 dency, the following varieties occur : 



Var. rivale Bedd. Pinnae close set, smaller 

 than in type, in shape almost a parallelogram \ 

 sori confined to the apex. 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, Nilkund, Yan, Malimani. Pulney 

 Hills and Anamallays, only in river-beds. 



Var. udum Atkinson ? Pinnre transparent,, 

 membranaceous, smaller than in the type, very 

 oblique and the cutting often fimbriate (i.e.,. 

 fringed). 



