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to occur in India and seems to have been 
lumped together with Nephrolepis cordifolia. 
A specimen wrongly named Nephrolepts ramosa 
(Beauv.) in the Bombay Natural History 
Society’s Herbarium is this fern. Of it Mr. 
Macpherson says:—‘It is an annual dying 
down shortly after the rains.’ The book has 
the following note ona specimen of this fern 
collécted by Mr. Woodrow in the caves at 
Panchgani. ‘I can make nothing of this but 
Nephrolepis cordifolia, but the pinnz are more 
membranaceous in texture than the fern usually 
is. The fact of its growing in a cave may 
account for this.’ 
We consider it to be distinct from N. 
cordifolia. It is an annual, whereas N. 
cordifolia-is perennial, it isa more delicate fern 
than N. cordifolia and has membranaceous 
involucres. The specimens we have examined 
answer well the description and figure of N. 
undulata given in Lowes’ Ferns, British and 
Exotic, vol. vii, pp. 51 and 52. Accordingly 
we have placed them in this species. 
Distribution: Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara, Karwar, Anshi Ghat at no elevation, 
Sumkund; Lonavla on trees; Panchgani in 
caves.— West Africa ; Sierra Leone. 
