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slightly scaly. Surfaces almost naked. Sori 
ina single row about midway between edge 
and midrib. Indusium firm, kidney-shaped. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Ekambi, growing on Caryota urens; 
Mahableshwar on trees; Panchgani. 
Throughout India up to 5,000 feet.—Japan ; 
New Zealand ; tropics of the whole world. 
Common in cultivation. It has run wild 
on Malabar hill. 
Var. Duffiti—This is a wild variety with 
pinnz reduced to mere auricles. 
Cultivated. 
2. Nephrolepis undulata J. Sm. 
Caudex almost erect, giving off a number of 
wiry filiform stolons which bear tubers. Stipes 
usually arising in twos from the caudex, naked 
or nearly so. Fronds slender, drooping, up to 2 
feet long, 14 inches broad, pinnate; pinne 4-inch 
broad, apex acuminate, acute or rounded; 
margin crenate or incised-crenate, with crena- 
tures often again crenate. Rachis naked; 
surfaces naked. Texture thin, membranaceous. 
Sori rounded, indusium kidney-shaped, thin. 
This species has not up to now been recorded 
