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texture, pinnules smaller, more numerous, orbicular, rhomboid, 
mostly auriculate, the serratures setiferous rather than spinulose. 
Bedd. F. S. I. t. 121. 
Nilgiris and Western mountains of South India. 
Var. Z semifertile. Base of the frond fertile, upper one- 
third barren. {Clarke, L c.) 
Sikkim. 
Var. r) BiARiSTATUM. {Bl. E71, PL Jav. Fil. 164.) Pin- 
nules large, oblong-falcate, sparingly serrate or spinulose ; sori 
generally round the margin. 
Khasya ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
Var. 0 SETOSUM. {Wall. Cat. 371.) Lower surface of frond 
with very long fibrillse; rachis with very large scales as well as 
fibrillse, pinnules small, quite entire, except the spinulose apex or with 
very inconspicuous crenatures to represent the usual lobes ; sori 
apical on the lower veinlet of the forked or pinnate vein of the 
segment (or what would correspond to the segment where the 
pinnule is entire). 
Him.alayas, from Kumaon to Sikkim, 5,000-8,000 feet elevation. 
A well marked form, considered a distinct species by some botanists. 
Var. \ ANOMALUM. {Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 27.) Segments blunt 
or slightly mucronate ; sori often, but not always, on the upper 
surface of the fronds. Polystichum anomalum, Bedd. F. S. I. 
t. 219. 
Ceylon ; Horton plains and Happootalee, 5,000-6,000 feet 
elevation. 
Var. k travancoricum. {Bedd.) Pinnae rather distant, 
lower pair generally deflexed ; pinnules prominently petioled, either 
subentire, large broad deltoid, with the lobing blunt not mucronate, 
or elongated up to 3 inches long, and pinnatifid or completely pinnate 
(except an indistinct wing to the rachis), the pinnules distant and 
again bluntly lobed, 3-4 pair below the pinnatifid apex ; rachis and 
stipe scaly and fibrillose, under surfaces fibrillose. 
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