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narrow linear lobes which widen suddenly on 
both sides within a short distance of the base, 
lobés serrate where sterile, lower pinnz often 
divided twoor three times. Surfaces naked. 
Texture almost leathery. Veins usually once 
forked. [Fig. 34.]° i 
This fern is rarely found in pec eyanice in 
the Presidency. ‘ 
Distribution : Madras Presidency—Carcoor 
Ghat, Wynaad ‘and Travancore hills, 2,000— 
5,000 feet; Ceylon, Dodawilla, Matele- and 
Modecnws forests above 2,000 feet eleva- 
tion—Borneo, Philippines and Society ‘Islands. 
7. Pteris wallichtana Ag. 
Stipe 5-6 feet long, strong, bright, chestnut 
brown, naked, glossy. Frorid divided into three 
parts, the lateral ones again forked ; the central 
one often 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, pinnate ; 
pinnules sessile, 4-6 inches long, linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, deeply pinnatifid ; segments 
about 4-inch long, linear lance-shaped, blunt at 
the apex, finely serrate when sterile. Surfaces 
naked. .Rachis like the stipe. Texture her- 
baceous. Basal veins uniting in pairs into an 
arch, the rest free. The arching of the’veins is 
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