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Sporangia sessile, arranged in two rows on the 
face of the spikes. Fronds consisting of a 
fertile and sterile segment on the same stipe. 
Sterile segment leafy, triangular, 2-3 pinnati- 
fidly decompound. Veins forked, free ; fertile 
segment consisting of a stalked spike which 
forms a compound panicle. 
Botrychwum virgimanum Sw. 
Stipes 3-18 inches long; sterile portion not 
stalked and not prolonged beyond the fertile 
segment, up to about a foot each way, triangu- 
lar, four-pinnatifid. Ultimate pinnules cut 
down almost to the rachis into linear-oblong 
segments, fertile branch springing from the base 
of the sterile portion (type) or from the middle 
of it. 
Var. lanuginosum—Surfaces hairy. The 
fertile branch always springs from the middle 
of the sterile segment which is more or less 
hairy. 
Distribution : Bombay Presidency—Ghats. 
South India, at the higher elevations on the 
western mountains; Ceylon; North India, 
on the Himalayas, Kumaon to Bhotan, 5,000- 
8,000 feet; Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet—The 
type in Europe, America and Japan. 
