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Himalayas, Nepal to Mishmee and Chittagong 

 up to 4,ooo feet ; Burma ; Malay Peninsula- 

 North Australia ; Formosa ; Japan ; Malay 

 Islands ; East African Islands. 



GENUS XII. SCHIZOLOMA GAUD. 



(Deriv. Gr. Schizo, I cut ; loma, margin.) 

 Veins more or less uniting. Pinnae unequal- 

 sided or equal-sided. 



(a) Pinnae unilateral (unequal-sided). 



.1.5. lobata. 



(b) Pinnae equilateral (equal-sided). 



(i) Frond pinnate. Pinnae rarely reduced 

 to one, 1^-6 inches long, J-i inch 

 broad, gradually tapering from a 

 broad unequal base. 



2. 5. cnsifolia. 



(it) Frond pinnate with large linear- 

 lanceolate pinnae or bipinnate, 

 occasionally tripinnate ; pinnules 

 ^-i inch long, J inch broad, entire 

 or unequally lobed. 



3, S. heterofrhylla. 



