106 20. LINDSAYA, EULINDSAYA. 



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

 interesting as showing a transition from Eulindsaya to Jsoloma. 



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 ; pinnce\-^\u. 1., 

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

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

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

 1. p. 287. L. oblongifolia, Reinw. Hk. Sp. 1. 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. 

 9-12 in. 1., l-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. I. 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 ; pinnce very numerous, about in. L, 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. Readily distin- 

 guishable from all the preceding by the pinnae being cut down to the rachis into narrow 

 linear-cuneate segments. 



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

 Sp. 13-25. 



13. L. filiformis, Hk. ; st. slender, wiry, very flexuose, brownish-black, 

 polished, 2-4 in. 1. ; fr. 4-6 in. 1., 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. 



Hab. British Guiana ; gathered by Sir R. Schoniburgk. The smallest and most slender 

 of the branched species. 



14. L. Catherines, 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., 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 considerably broader than the inner, 

 and finely toothed. Hk. Sp. 1. p. 212. t. 65. B. 



Hab. St. Catherine's, Brazil ; gathered by Captain Beechey. The most divided plant 

 in the pinnules of the branched, as L. Lapeyrousii is of the unbranched group. 







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

 polished, dark-coloured ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., 4-6 in. br., deltoid in general outline, with 



