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Distribution : Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Anmode, Cooesi. 
Himalayas, Dalhousie, 5,500 feet and other 
localities, pendent from dripping rocks. 
3. Asplenium laciniatum Don. 
Stipe scaly. Frond up to two feet long, pin- 
‘mate; pinnz linear, oblong or half-ovate, very 
much cut away and unequal at the base, 
‘slightly pinnatifid with segments serrated, or 
deeply pinnatifid with segments distant. Tex- 
‘ture almost leathery. Rachisscaly. [Plate IX.] 
The fronds roll up after the rains and so 
resist the dry season. When dry the fronds can 
be artificially uncurled in water. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Anshi, Yekambi ; Panchgani; Maha- 
‘bleshwar ; Matheran, on trees ; Lonavla. 
Madras Presidency, all the western moun- 
tains, 3,000-8,000 feet; Himalayas, Gurwhal 
to Bhotan ; Khasya ; Ceylon.—Japan. 
Be ‘Asplenium dimorphum Kze. 
Stipe 6-12 inches long, naked. Fronds 2-3 
feet long, 12-15 inches broad, ovate-triangular ; 
of two kinds ; sterile frond as a rule bipinnate 
with roundish oval pinnules which are wedge- 
