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Distribution : Bombay Presidency Khan- 

 dala, Lonavla, Purandhar, Panchgani on the 

 way to the Tableland, Mahableshwar, Mathe- 

 ran, Igatpuri. 



South India, Anamallay Hills, dry grassy 

 places, 5,000 feet ; Myhenda Hill near Berham- 

 pore, 4,500 feet ; Parasnath, 4,000 feet. 



4. Athyrium felix fcemina Roth. 



Caudex ascending, scaly. Stipes tufted, 

 straw-coloured, scaly. Fronds 1-4 feet long, 

 lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate ; lower pinnules of 

 pinnse deeply pinnatifid into ovate segments 

 having a few sharp serratures ; superior ones 

 more entire, coarsely serrated, uppermost ones 

 confluent into a pinnatifid, or serrated long 

 point. Texture thinly herbaceous. Rachis 

 naked. Involucres in two rows on the second- 

 ary pinnae, short, oblong. [Plate IX.] 



Two varieties, viz. pectinate and flabcllulata, 

 have been mentioned by Birdwood as occurring 

 in the Presidency. We have not been able to 

 distinguish these in the material at our disposal. 

 The specimens we have examined came from 

 Panchgani north side of Tableland, Mathe- 

 ran, Khandala, and North Kanara. 



