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winged above. Frond 2-8 inches long, 1-3 
inches broad, not crisped, ovate, oblong, three- 
pinnatifid, main rachis winged; lower pinne 
divided. to the winged rachis into severa] 
pinnules, on each side, the lowest of which are 
pinnatifid, with the segments linear. Sori more 
or less terminal on the segments; indusium 
distinctly two-valved, the valves ovate or 
rounded. [Fig. 1o.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—Castle 
Rock. 
Western Ghats of the Madras Presidency ; 
Ceylon; Himalayas and Khasya mountains, 
4,000—12,000 feet ; Burma. 
Genus VI.—TricHoMANES SMITH 
(Deriv. Thrix, hair ; manos, soft.) 
Sori always terminating a vein, more or less 
sunk in the frond ; indusium tubular or slightly 
two-lipped; receptacle elongated, columnar, 
often considerably protruding beyond thé 
mouth of the indusium. 
(a) Fronds entire below, palmate or digi- 
tate above. 
1. T. kurgit. 
