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fronds generally smaller, more compound with 
the pinnules, much broader and crenate, serrate: 
at the margins. Surfaces naked. Rachis naked. 
Texture almost leathery. Veins usually once 
or twice forked. [Plate VII] 
Distribution: Malabar, rare; hills of Vizaga-: 
patam district, common; plains of East: 
Bengal; Bhotan to Chittagong; Ceylon; 
Burma; Malay Peninsula.—Tropical Australia; 
China; Polynesia. . 
Var. vutctovie (Hort.)—This is a garden 
variety having the fronds variegated with 
white. 
4. Pterrs pelluctda Pres}. 
Stipes naked. Fronds 12-18 inches long, 
egg-shaped to lancé-shaped, pinnate; pinne 
few, usually sessile, lance-shaped up to about 
1-inch broad, all simple or the lowest pair 
forked, margin when barren, entire wavy, crisped 
or finely crenate. Surfaces bright, green, glossy, 
naked. Rachis naked. Texture leathery. The 
frond often consists of one pinna only. 
[Fig. 33 and Plate VII.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, very common everywhere, Anmod, 
Pupa, Karwar, Guddhali, Anshi, Nilkund Ghat, 
