Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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tufted mass of fibres ; stipes tufted, glossy brown, slender, filiform, 

 1-4 inches long; fronds small 2-4 inches long, i-i^ inch broad, 

 delicate, membranaceous very transparent, ovate or deltoid, all 

 fertile, varying from reniform crenated to variously pinnate or 

 bi-tripinnate, those on the shorter stipes being less compound, pinnae 

 spathulate to obovate, decurrent, deeply crenated, lobes entire or 

 serrulate ; veins simple or forked, not reaching the margin ; sori 



N°220. 

 GYMNOGRAMME LEPTOFHYLLA. [Desv.) 



oblong, simple or forked. Desv. fount. Bo/, i. p. 26. Hook. Sp. FiL 

 v. 136. Bedd. F. S. / A 270. Anogramma, Link. 



Western ghats of the Peninsula of India, Ootacamund, Ma- 

 hableswar, Suttara Fort walls. 



CAlso in Europe, the Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Africa, Persia, 

 Australia, New Zealand, South America.) 



