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long, 6-g inches broad; pinnules $-4 inch broad 
straight, almost wedge-shaped or rounded ai 
the base and deeply lobed upper border ; rachi: 
and surfaces naked. Texture thin, herbaceous 
Sori roundish or transversely oblong. 
Like Adiantum capillus veneris, but the 
-pinnules are broadly wedge-shaped at the base 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—Nortt 
Kanara, Supa, rare. 
Nilgiri and Pulney mountains at the highe 
elevations ; Ceylon.—Australia; New Zealand 
America; Africa ; East African Islands. 
10. Adtantum cuneatum Langs. and Fisch. 
Stipe 6-9 inches long, slender, black, naked 
polished. Frond upto 18 inches long, 6-< 
inches broad, triangular, 3-4 pinnate; pinnule: 
4-8 inch broad, wedge-shaped at the base 
rounded at the outer edge with crenated lobes 
rachisand surfaces naked. Texture thin. Sor 
4-6 on a pinnule situated in hollows of the 
lobes, indusium kidney-shaped. [Fig. 28.] 
Distribution : Brazil. 
Very common in cultivation and runs intc 
many varieties, very difficult to identify. 
