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slightly scaly. Surfaces almost naked. Sori 

 in a single row about midway between edge 

 and midrib. Indusium firm, kidney-shaped. 



Distribution : Bombay Presidency North 

 Kanara, Ekambi, growing on Caryota urens ; 

 Mahableshwar on trees ; Panchgani. 



Throughout India up to 5,000 feet. Japan ; 

 New Zealand ; tropics of the whole world. 



Common in cultivation. It has run wild 

 on Malabar hill. 



Var. Duffii. This is a wild variety with 

 pinnae reduced to mere auricles. 



Cultivated. 



2. Nephrolepis undulata J. Sm. 



Caudex almost erect, giving off a number of 

 wiry filiform stolons which bear tubers. Stipes 

 usually arising in twos from the caudex, naked 

 or nearly so. Fronds slender, drooping, up to 2 

 feet long, i| inches broad, pinnate; pinnae ^-inch 

 broad, apex acuminate, acute or rounded ; 

 margin crenate or incised-crenate, with crena- 

 tures often again crenate. Rachis naked ; 

 surfaces naked. Texture thin, membranaceous. 

 Sori rounded, indusium kidney-shaped, thin. 



This species has not up to now been recorded 



