206 LINDS.EA. 



close to and parallel with the pale brown rachis, lower vein 

 marginal strong, sori linear continuous along the upper mar- 

 gin and apex. (Tab. LXIII. 13.) — L, decomposita, J. Sm. 

 in Hook. JoKvn. Jiol. iii, p. 415. 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 405. Isle of Leyti, Cuming, n. 306. Pulo 

 Penang, Lady Dalhousie. — This and the follovvinf? are by far the largest of 

 the simply pinnated group of true Linchocai (EulindsEeae), and remarkable 

 for the stout scaly climbing caudex, with distantly placed, long fronds, and 

 dark green, closely placed pinna. In this, too, the fronds are nearly ses- 

 sile, the stipes and racliis pale brown, semiterete. 



9. L. ohloufjifolia, Reinw. ; caudex long scandent scaly, 

 fronds stipitate elongate (large) lanceolate attenuated, pin- 

 nules oblong obtuse superior base and lower margin straight 

 truncate, upper margin and blunt apex crenate, involucres in- 

 terrupted marginal, lower nearly marginal, stipes and rachis 

 pale brown. (Tab. LXI. D.) — L. oblongif'ulia, Reinia. MtSS. 

 (according to J. Sm.J 



Hab. Soutli Camarines, Malay Archipelago, Craning, n. 186. — Much 

 resembling the foregoing, L. scaiulem, but the stipes is longer, tlie pinrue 

 narrower, less falcate, ui)per ones slightly crenate or lobed, so that the in- 

 volucres are interrupted. 



10. L. linearis, Sw. ; caudex creeping brittle, iVonds dis- 

 tant linear acuminate membranaceous pinnate, pinnae rather 

 rigid sessile flabellate (when dry revolute) the anterior mar- 

 gin soriferous uninterrupted, the involucres broad, sterile 

 pinnoB subdimidiato-ovate toothed, stipes long glossy and the 

 rachis pm-ple brown. — Sic. Si/n. Fil. p. 118 and 318, t. 3,/. 

 3. Br. Prodr. Nov. Hall. p. 156. Kze. in Schklt. Siippl. p. 

 30, t. 16. Adiantum lineare, Poir. Encycl. Bot. Snppl. i. p. 

 139. Lindsaja lunata, fF?7/r/. Sp. PI. v. p. 4:21. L. imbricata, 

 Desv. 



Hab. New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, Broum, Sieber, n. 1 18, 

 Gunn, Lawrence. Swan River, West Australia, ./. Drnmmond,n. 4, 226, 

 and 401. New Zealand, A. Cunningham, Colenso, J. D. Hooker, Dr. Sin- 

 clair. — A small and very distinct species of Fern, from 2 — 3 inches to a- 

 foot long, rigid, firm, with small pinns. Stipes and rachis dark glossy pur- 

 ple. PiuuEe rather distant, subrigid, lower ones almost opposite, subrigid. 



11. L. lucida, Bl. (not "SVall.) ; "fronds elongate pinnated 

 membranaceous glabrous (shining), pinnae subsessile dimidi- 

 ato-ovate rather acute, truncate at tlie superior base, the su- 

 perior margin subinciso-dentate or quite entire, sori linear 

 entire or interrupted, stipes and rachis tetragonous glabrous.'" 

 BL En. Fil. Jar. p. SIT. 



Hah. Trunks of trees in mountainous woods, Java, Blume. — "Differs 

 from L. cullrala in the shorter rather acute pinnte, shining above, and in 



