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Occurs in Bombay only in cultivation. 
2. Microlepia strigosa Moore 
Frond bipinnate; pinnules oblong, rhomboidal, 
rather bluntly toothed. Veins hairy on both 
sides; rest of the surface hairy or naked. 
Rachis hairy. Indusium half cup-shaped, 
hairy. . 
Very much like M. spelunce, except that it 
is never more than bipinnate. 
Cultivated. 
Distribution: Tinnevelly and Travancore 
mountains, South India; Ceylon; Himalayas ; 
Malay Peninsula—Japan ; South China ; Sand- 
wich and Fiji Islands. 
3. Microlepia spelunce Bedd. 
Rhizome short, creeping. Stipes 1-14 foot 
long. Fronds up to six or more feet long, 
triangular to ovate, 3-4 pinnatifid. Ultimate 
segments rhomboidal, almost entire or slightly 
crenated (or more or less deeply cut). Surfaces 
hairy or almost naked. Texture membranace- 
ous. Sori half cup-shaped with the indusium 
hairy or naked. [Fig. 15.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara—Jog, Gersoppa Ghat, Yan; Bombay 
Island—Sion Wood. 
