722 ; CXLVII. FILICES, [.Lindsea. 
sometimes only 2 or 3, sometimes pest 20, lanceolate, 1 
- in: Scar ihe frond ending in a long lanceolate lobe occasionally 
broken up into small obovate segments. Veins more or less anasto- 
mosing. Sori continued along the whole margin except the short equally 
cuneate base.— Hook. and Grev. Ic. Filic. t. 111; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 
118; L. lanceolata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 98, t. 248; R. Br. Prod. 
156; L. pentaphylla, Hook. Spec. Pus 219, 1.67; Schizoloma ensi- 
folium, J. Sm. ; Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t 
W. Australia. North-coast AUN R. Brown; Hunter's River, York Sound, 
A, Cunningham; Fitzmaurice River, F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Scho iliz, h. 
36, 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay and Port Bowen, R. Bro ede 
Dae Albany Island, F, Mueller ; Daintree River? "Fitealan ; "'Gilber P" given 
acri ; Mount t Wheeler, Thozet ; Moreton Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller 
n the Mascarene Islands, East India, the ume an Archipelago and South 
Pacific | Talsnda: Labillardiére gives Cape Van Die si or ania) as the station 
for his plant. No other collector however has nen E there, and it is omitted in 
. D. Hooker's Flora. In Hook. Sp. Filic. Labillardiére’s statio on is given as North 
Coast, which Labillardiére did not visit. There is no doubt however of the identity 
of his plant with the common teopinal species. 
Var. heterophylla. A few or many or mas : pinnæ elongated and wholly or par- 
tially divided into small pinnules or se ts.— Carpentaria Islands, R. Brown 
York Peninsula, N. Taylor ; Pe York, anil Rocking had Bay, ' Dallachy, y. 
Hill; ‘Tunes River, Fitzalan 
Baker is espa to identify this variety with the Asiatic Z. heterophylla, 
nio vi eene is certainly very near it, but with the pinnules usually longer and of 
a firmer 
LL. teen Wall.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 210, t. 69, Syn. 
pud 109.—Rhizome stout, creeping. Fronds 1 to about 2 ft. long, 
simply pinnate, the rhachis densely woolly-tomentose, or the woo 
at length deeiduous.  Pinn umerous, lanceolate, often falcate, 
all fre 
along the se ia except the obliquely rae bu base.—F. Muell. 
Fragm. v. 118. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, W. Hill; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy ; Port 
Denison and Daintree River, gw T $ : 
Spread over tropical Asia and Africa, 
22. ADIANTUM, Linn. 
Rhizome creeping or tufted. Fronds c compound or rarely simple. 
Pinnules more or less pailai, often oblique, the forked or dichotomous 
veins radiating from the petiole to the margin without any midrib. 
