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up to three feet long, pinnate ; pinnz lanceolate, 
often caudate, with the base often much auri- 
cled; edges serrated, or lobed with the lobes 
serrate; the two sides unequal, the lower 
obliquely truncate at the base. Texture 
leathery. Rachis glabrous or covered with 
hair-pointed scales. Sori in long irregular 
lines reaching nearly to the margin. [Plate IX.] 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Yekambi; Savantwadi; Mahableshwar. 
Madras Presidency, western mountains; 
Ceylon; Malay Peninsula; Soonderbun ; 
_ Koolna in Jessore.—Australia ; South Africa 
and its islands ; Polynesia. 
Asplenium crinicaule Hance and Aspleniwm 
macrophyllum Swartz being doubtfully distinct 
from Asplenium falcatum are placed here as 
varieties of the species. 
Var. crimicaule. Stipes and rachises densely 
covered with hair-pointed scales. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara. 
Madras Presidency on the Anamallays and 
in Coorg, 3,000-4,000 feet; Sikkim, Jaintia 
Hills, 4,000-5,000 feet —China. 
' Var. macrophyllum. Pinne generally larger 
and broader and less cut than those of the type. 
