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hairy. Texture asarule leathery. Sori on the 
edge of the lobes, nearly round. ([Fig. 20.] 
Distcibution: Bombay Presidency—Southern 
parts in the higher Ghats ; Purandhar; Satara 
district, Shirgaon Ghat; Nasik district, Lena 
Hill ; Khandesh, north slope of Chanseli. 
Throughout India, Ceylon, and the Malay 
Peninsula, in the plains and on lower slopes of 
the hills—South China; Malay Islands, Java; 
Mauritius; Tropical Africa; Cape Verde 
Islands. 
Also cultivated. 
The variety edgeworthii Bedd. of Northern 
India, with the pinne and rachis naked and 
pinne less cut, has been recorded by Lowe in 
his Ferns, British and Exotic, to occur in Sind; 
elsewhere in the Presidency it has not yet been 
found. 
3. Adiantum peruvianum Klotzch 
Stipe 6-g inches long, strong, erect, black 
polished, naked. Fronds simply pinnate, or 
the lower branches again pinnate or bipinnate ; 
ultimate pinnules two inches or more broad, 14 
inches deep, obliquely ovate, base wedge-shaped, 
apex often long, pointed, upper and outer sides 
