106 20. LINDSAYA, EULIXDSAYA 



Hab. Venezuela, Guiana, and valley of Amazon. A very distinct species and 

 interesting as showing a transition from Eulindsaya to Isoloma, 



10. L. pectinata, Blume ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, scandent, paleaceous ; 

 st. erect, very short ; Jr. 12-18 in. 1., 1-2 in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnae ^-^in. L, 

 J in. deep, the lower line nearly straight, the upper margin round, slightly 

 (irenate, the point not very blunt, close together, but not imbricated ; texture 

 pellucido-herbaceous ; sori in an interrupted line along the upper edge. Hk. Sp. 

 1. p. 206. L. oblongifolia, Reinw. Hk. Sp. \.p. 206. t. 61. D. 



Hab. Assam and Malayan Peninsula and Islands. Habit of Odontoloma repens, 

 which see. L. calomelanos, Kunze, from Java, is said to be closely allied. 



11. L. scandens, Hk. ; rhizome stout, wide-creeping, scandent, paleaceous ; fr. 

 9-1 2 in. L, 1^-lf in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnae f in. 1., ^ in. br., the lower line 

 slightly decurved, the upper rounded, entire, the point broadly rounded, placed 

 in a long row close together, but not imbricated ; texture pellucido-herbaceous ; 

 costa marginal ; sori in a continuous marginal line. -Hk. Sp. \.p. 205. t. 63. B. 



Hab. Malayan Peninsula and Philippine Islands ; gathered by Sir W. Norris, Lady 

 Dalhousie, and Mr. Cuming. Said to be sometimes bipinnate, but very doubtfully 

 distinct from L. pectinata. The two may readily be known from the rest of the group 

 by the stout scandent rhizome. 



12. L. Lapeyrousii, Baker ; st. tufted, very short ; fr. 9-15 in. 1., about 1| in. 

 br. at the widest part, not branched ; pinnae very numerous, about f in. 1., with 

 4-8 spathulate-cuneate secund segments cut down to a narrow rachis ; texture 

 herbaceous, both surfaces naked ; sori subterminal on the segments ; invol. 

 shallow, nearly as broad as the segments, which measure a line or more across at 

 the apex. Davallia, Hk. 2nd Cent. t. 56. 



Hab. Vanekolla and Fiji ; gathered by Messrs. C. Moore and Milne. Probably the 

 same species as Davallia hymenophylloides, 



ft Main rachis more or less branched when the plant attains its full development. 

 Sp. 13-25. 



13. L. filiformiSy Ilk. ; st. slender, wiry, very flexuose, brownish-black, 

 polished, 2-4 in. 1. ; fr. 4-6 in. L, with a long simply pinnate apex, and below 

 several pairs of short, spreading, flexuose branches ; pinnl. 2 lin. br., 1 lin. deep, 

 the lower line curved upwards or downwards, the upper nearly entire, placed 

 near together but not imbricated, obliquely truncate on the side towards the 

 rachis ; texture pellucido-herbaceous ; sori, in a continuous line along the upper 

 edge. Hk. Sp. 1. p. 212. t. 63. D. L. tenuis, Klotzsch, oldest name. 



Hab. British Guiana ; gathered by Sir K. Schomburgk. The smallest and most 

 slender of the branched species. 



14. L. Catherine, Hk. ; rhizome short-creeping ; st. slender, erect, wiry, 

 polished, 6-9 in. 1. ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., with a pinnate summit, and below several 

 spreading branches, the lowest of which are sometimes again branched at the 

 base ; pinnl. % in. 1., J in. deep, cut down nearly to the costa into two or three 

 cleft obversely triangular lobes ; texture thinly pellucido-herbaceous ; sori not 

 quite as broad as the lobes, the outer valve consideraby broader than the inner, 

 and finely toothed. Hk. Sp. l.p. 212. t. 65. B. 



Hab. St. Catherine's, Brazil; gathered by Captain Beechey. Not more than a 

 variety of L. virescens. 



15. L. virescens, Svvartz ; rhizome short-creeping; st. 6-9 in. 1., slender, flexuose, 

 polished, dark-coloured ; fr. 6-9 in. L, 4-6 in. br., deltoid in general outline, with 



