•210 LINDS.EA. 



equal, costa central, veins copious almost parallel with the 

 costa, sorus marginal continuous on both sides. (Tab. 

 LXIX. A.) 



Hab. Ceylou, ]\Irs. Gen. Walker. — A very fine and distinct species, 

 with the habit of L. {Schizoloma) ensifolia. Caudex thicker than a crow's 

 quill, creepinfi^, clothed with ferruginous, scale-like hairs. Stipes often a foot 

 long, dark purple-black, glossy ; rachis the same colour. Frond, six. inches 

 to nearly a foot long, of from six to seven pairs (for they are nearly opposite) 

 of linear-lanceolate, acuminated, subcoriaceous pinnae, with a terminal 

 peliolated one, rather obtuse at the point ; the base cuneate ; their sides 

 equal ; costa central, throwing out numerous almost parallel, or but slightly 

 spreading, dichotomous veins. Sori on both sides and forming the margin, 

 continuous, narrow. The terminal pinna is sometimes lobed or angled on 

 one or both sides of the base. 



24. L, /«;/<«(/? no.w, Wall. ; caudex tall robust, fronds ob- 

 long-lanceolate pinnated, pinna? subcoriaceous approximate 

 very numerous oblong approaching to lanceolate more or less 

 falcato-incurved obtuse or acute deciduous, the sides equal, 

 the base truncate sessile below clothed with deciduous wool, 

 costa central, veins spreading copious in old fronds termi- 

 nating on the upper side in white cretaceous dots just within 

 the margin, sorus on both sides and at the margin continuous, 

 stipes short and rachis (stout) more or less woolly. (Tab. 

 LXIX. B.— Wall. Cat. n. 154. Isoloma, J. Sm. 



Hab. Growing on trees in Sincapore and Penang, Dr. Wallich ; New 

 Guinea, Mr. Hinch. — This has, probably, the longest fronds of any in 

 the genus. Some of my specimens are two feet long, and stout in propor- 

 tion, and in none do I appear to have the entire stipes. Caudex unknown 

 to me. Stipes and rachis pale brown, terete, furrowed on one side. Pinnse 

 very numerous, 2 — 3 inches long, very deciduous, as in Nephrolepis, Schott, 

 which the plant resembles in habit and in the presence of the cretaceous 

 white dots. It is difficult to obtain perfect specimens. 



25. L. divergensy Wall. ; caudex creeping, stipes and rachis 

 ebony-black glossy, fronds lanceolate pinnate, pinna3 ap- 

 proximate crowded horizontal lanceolate obtuse subsemihas- 

 tate at the base, glaucous beneath, the sides equal, costa cen- 

 tral, veins oblique once forked distant internal obscure, sorus 

 marginal and continuous on both edges and at the apex. — 

 Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. f. 226. Vittaria divergens, Herh. 

 Roxb.— Wall. Cat. n. 2191. Ro.vb. Crypt. PL [ed Griff.) 

 p. 48. 



Hab. Prince of Wales' Island, il/r. W. Roxburgh. Malacca, Griffiths, 

 Cuming, n. .395. — The closely-placed lanceolate pinnae, glaucous beneath, 

 give to the frond of this very rare species of Lindscea a good deal the 

 habit of a branch of Gleichenia. It differs in many particulars from the 

 other species of this group, especially in the immersed lax and simply 



