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texture, pinnules smaller, more numerous, orbicular, rhomboid, 

 mostly auriculate, the serratures setiferous rather than spinulose. 

 Bedd. F. S. I.t. 121. 



Nilgiris and Western mountains of South India. 



Var. £ semifertile. Base of the frond fertile, upper one- 

 third barren. {Clarke, I. c.) 

 Sikkim. 



Var. jj biaristatum. {Bl. En. PL Jav. Fil. 164.) Pin- 

 nules large, oblong-falcate, sparingly serrate or spinulose ; sori 

 generally round the margin. 



Khasya ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



Var. 6 SETOsinr. {Wall. Cat. 371.) Lower surface of frond 

 with very long fibrillar ; rachis with very large scales as well as 

 fibrillae, pinnules small, quite entire, except the spinulose apex or with 

 very inconspicuous crenatures to represent the usual lobes ; sori 

 apical on the lower veinlet of the forked or pinnate vein of the 

 segment (or what would correspond to the segment where the 

 pinnule is entire). 



Himalayas, from Kumaon to Sikkim, 5,000-8,000 feet elevation. 

 A well marked form, considered a distinct species by some botanists. 



Var. I anomalum. {Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 27.) Segments blunt 

 or slightly mucronate ; sori often, but not always, on the upper 

 surface of the fronds. Polystichum anomalum, Bedd. F. S. I. 

 t. 219. 



Ceylon; Horton plains and Happootalee, 5,000-6,000 feet 

 elevation. 



Var. k travancoricum. {Bedd.) Pinnoe rather distant, 

 lower pair generally deflexed ; pinnules prominently petioled, either 

 subentire, large broad deltoid, with the lobing blunt not mucronate, 

 or elongated up to 3 inches long, and pinnatifid or completely pinnate 

 (except an indistinct wing to the rachis), the pinnules distant and 

 again bluntly lobed, 3-4 pair below the pinnatifid apex ; rachis and 

 stipe scaly and fibrillosc, under surfaces fibrillose. 



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