962 | CXLVIL FILICES. [.Lygodium. 
long, with 12 to 15 pairs of spore-cases.— Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 61; 
L. microphyllum, R. Br. Prod. 162; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 118. 
N. Australia, Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 382; Adams Bay, Hulse; Liverpool 
River, Gulliver. 
Queensland. Sandy Cape, Hervey Bay, R. Brown ; Cape York and Endeavour 
River, W. Hil! Daemel, N. Taylor ; Rockingham Bay, Dailachy; Port Denison, 
Fitzalan ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham 
F. Mueller. 
N. S. Ww 
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ales. Tweed River, Guilfoyle. 
Widely spread over tropical Asia, received also from tropical Africa. 
pinnate, with 3 to 5 secondary pinnules. Veins forked, diverging from 
a central nerve and occasionally crossing each other or anastomosing. 
Sori small, usually numerous and crowded along the margins, each with 
2 pairs of spore-cases.—Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 439 ; 
Hydroglossum scandens, Presl ; Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 62. i 
Queensland. York Peninsula, N. Taylor; Daintree River, Fitzalan ; Rocking- 
ham Bay, Dallachy. 
Also in the Pacific Islands, 
or toothed when barren, the veins free ; fertile fronds either similar < 
he barren ones or reduced to a branched rhachis. Sori forming sho 
linear marginal lobes as in Z. scandens.— L. semibipinnatum, R. Br. 
Prod. 162, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 113. 
N. Australia. Islands off the North Coast, R. Brown ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 
20; Roper River, McDouall Stuart; Etheridge River, Gulliver. 
i Cape York, Daemel; York Peninsula, N. Taylor ; Endeavour 
a A. Cunningham, G. Brown; Dayman's Isle, W. Hill; Rockingham Bay, 
Spread over the Malayan Archipelago, East Indies and Eastern Asia to Japan. 
5. SCHIZZEA, Sm. 
r gants closely imbricate in a secund spike at the end of M: 
rtile branches, those of the two sides folded against each other wit 
the fructification inside. ^ Spore-cases globular, without any ring 
Rhizome short. Fronds erect, linear, terete or very narrow, simple 
forked or dichotomous, without expanded laminez. Sori forming small 
