729 CXLVII. FILICES. { Lindsea. 
to 6 in. long, the stipes and rhachis wiry but slender and pale-coloured. 
Pinnules near together, occupying the greater part of the frond, very 
oblique or half-reniform, 3 to 4 lines broad, the rounded outer margin 
E bud state than the Australian specimens) ; Bedd. Ferns 8. Ind. 
; Davallia brachypoda, Baker, Syn. Filic. 468 ; Lindsca concinna, 
Í tes Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 18. 
keg York Peninsula, recs s Expedition, N. Taylor; Bellenden Ker 
ge. W. Hill ; Gilbert River, Daint 
Also in the Mascarene Islands and tropical and eastern Asia up to 
Japan 
L. aie Dolkts, Dryand. in Trans, Linn. Soc. ii. 41 
Rhizome creeping. Fronds 6 in. to 1 ft. high, usually bipinnate 2 or 
lower pinue being again pinnate and 2 to 4 in. long, the 
iiber pinne entire, but sometimes the whole frond sat pinnate or 
in other s specimeus more or less tripinnate. iunules oblique, in the _ 
simply pinnate part flabellate or almost rhomboid often 4 in. broad, 
smaller in the more compound specimens. Veins forked, free or very 
rarely here and there anastomosing. Sori continuous round the mar- 
gin or interrupted.—L. tenera, Dryand. ; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 119; L. 
media, a, R. Br. Prod. 156; LZ. polymorpha, Hook. and Grev. le. f ilie. 
E 
N. Australia. Islands off the North Coast, R. PSU ; Port Essington, 
venite NER 
Que d. York Peninsula, N. Taylor; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; 
Dolonden goes Range, W. Hil; Islands off the ‘coast, A, Cunningham, 
ilivra 
Also in East India and the Malayan Archipelago. 
bata, Poir.; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filie. 111.— Rhizome 
oid: e ds 6 in. to 1 ft. high, simply pinnate or bipinnate with 
few pinnate pue. "s the base, much resembling the less- 
branched specim T. flabellulata, but the fertile pinnules 
often more thas, n in. broad, and the veinlets frequently anas- 
tomosing. 
Queensland. Endeavour C Ht cies Rivers, N. Taylor; Rockingham 
Bay, Dallachy ; Hull River, 
Islands - India, the Malayan Archipelago and the South Pacific 
slands. 
des, Dryand. in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 43, t. 11. 
Tied veiut usd rather rigid, 6 in. to near l Bos high, 
including the long wiry stipes, bipin nate. Primary piune alm ost 
opposite, usually j to Lin. long; pinnules obovate or oblong-canéaté 
