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pinnatifid. Ultimate lobes rounded. Texture 

 herbaceous. Rachis more or less hairy. Sur- 

 faces hairy. Sori copious on the back of the 

 veinlets, indusium large, pale, hairy. [Plate 

 XUL] 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency Western 

 Ghats ; Purandhar ; Satara ; Panchgani. 



South India, on the Anamallays, Perigoonda 

 Hill, 5,000 feet ; Ceylon ; Himalayas from 

 Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet ; Khasya 

 2,000-4,500 feet, Chota Nagpur, 2,000-3,000 

 feet; Malay Peninsula. -South China; Mau- 

 ritius ; Tropical Africa. 



GENUS XXXIII. -NEPHRODIUM SCHOTT. 



(Deriv. Gr. Ncphros, kidney in allusion to 

 the shape of the indusium.) 



Sori round ; indusium kidney-shaped (often 

 like that of Athyrium or Asplenium in N. 

 subpedinatum), sometimes absent. Veins 

 pinnate, one or more of the lower veinlets 

 anastomosing at an angle with corresponding 

 ones of the next group, producing from their 

 junction an ex-current veinlet which is either free 

 or joined in the angle of the next superior 

 pair. Fronds pinnate, pinnae as a rule pinnatifid. 



