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pinnatifid. Ultimate lobes rounded. Texture 
herbaceous. Rachis more or less hairy. Sur- 
faces hairy. Sori copious on the back of the 
veinlets, indusium large, pale, hairy. [Plate 
XIU] 
Distribution : Bombay Presidency—Western 
Ghats ; Purandhar ; Satara ; Panchgani. 
South India, on the Anamallays, Perigoonda 
Hill, 5,000 feet ; Ceylon; Himalayas from 
Gurwhal to Bhotan, 2,000-7,000 feet ; Khasya 
2,000-4,500 feet, Chota Nagpur, 2,000-3,000 
feet ; Malay Peninsula.—South China; Mau- 
ritius ; Tropical Africa. 
Genus XXXIIJ.—NeEpurRopIUM ScHOTT. 
(Deriv. Gr. Nephros, kidney—in allusion to 
the shape of the indusium.) 
Sori round; indusium kidney-shaped (often 
like that of Athyrium or Asplenium in N. 
subpectinatum), sometimes absent. Veins 
pinnate, one or more of the lower veinlets 
anastomosing at an angle with corresponding 
ones of the next group, producing from their 
junction an ex-current veinlet which is either free 
or joined in the angle of the next superior 
pair. Fronds pinnate, pinne as a rule pinnatifid. 
