212 LINDS.EA. 



Trans, v. iii. p. 42, /. 10. L. inteirupta, Wall. Cat. ji. 2195. 

 Vittaiia inteirupta, Ro.vb. Crypt. PL Jnd. p. 49. 



Hab. East India, Missionaries of the Soc. of United Brethren {Dryan- 

 der). Madras, Dr. Wight, Wallich, {n. 2195). Malacca, Cuming, n. 399. 

 Mount Ophir, and in Java, Thos. Lobb. — This certainly resembles some 

 states of L.flabellulata, but tbe texture is much thinner and more mem- 

 branaceous, the pinnules more cunealcd and much more uniform, more de- 

 cidedly and constantly petiolate and more lobed, so that the sori, beinp: on 

 comparatively narrow lobes, the fructification is much internipted ; and the 

 pinnules are nearly confluent. Dryander's figure is highly characteristic, 

 except that the specimen is a small one and the pinnules scarcely so much 

 lobed as usual. Our specimens are generally a foot and a half long, the 

 stipes about equal in length to the frond or longer. 



29. L. media, Br. ; " fronds bipinnate deltoid, pinnules 

 obovato-rhomboid subcoriaceous, inferior ones lobed, the rest 

 entire, the superior edge unisorous, sorus continuous the 

 sterile ones serrated at the apex, stipes tetragonous." — Br. 

 Pordr. Fl. Nov. Hoi I. p. 156. 



Hal). Tropical shores of New Holland, Brown. E. Coast of Tropical 

 New Holland, A. Cunningham. — A span to nearly a foothif^h. In general 

 aspect much resembling L. tenera, but the pinnules are less lobed and the 

 whole more rigid and subcoriaceous. 



30. L. Jiliformis, Hook. ; small, caudex ? rachis long 

 slender filiform flexuose scandent semiterete grooved anteri- 

 orly, frond bipinnate, pinnae nearly opposite secund linear- 

 lanceolate, pinnules very small distant petiolate obliquely- or 

 dimidiato-ovate membranaceous obscurely lobed and uni- 

 sorous on the anterior margin, vein 2 — 3 branched, 2 superior 

 branches bearing the sorus. (Tab. LXIII. D.) 



Hub. British Guiana, Schomburgh. — I regret that I possess but an im- 

 perfect specimen of this curious little fern. This is a span long, about 

 one-half being represented at our Tab. LXIII. D. The caudex is wanting. 

 The rachis, as I take it to be, is long and flexuose, glossy, the pinnae nearly 

 opposite, secund, as if the rachis were climbing or trailing and the 

 pinnae were drawn forward in one direction by the light. The fructifica- 

 tion never occupies more than 2 veins or branches of veins (rarely only one) 

 and may thus have an equal claim to be considered a Davallia (Subgenus 

 Odontoloma) ; and I have already alluded to the close affinity of that group 

 with LindscBa. 



31. L. Catharince, Hook.; frond ovato-deltoid acuminate 

 3 — 4 pinnate very thin and membranaceous bright green, 

 pinna) cuncate and bi-tripartite or (in circumscription) half 

 ovate with the superior base trimcate and 3 or 4 times deeply 

 divided into cinieate spreading segments undivided or 2-lobed 

 the apex serrated unisorous, involucres reniform transversely 



