220 I.lNUS.iiA. 



ing slioit, stipites shorter than the ])innatud membranaceous 

 frond, pinnaj about 5-costate, lateral ones ovate-oblong ob- 

 tuse, terminal one elongated lanceolate, veins reticulated, 

 sorus continuous round almost the entire margin. (Tab. 

 LXVII. A.) 



Hal). New Holland, Mr. Bi/noe.—'This may possibly he a state of L. 

 eiisifolia, but the very short side pinnules are at variance with such an 

 opinion. 



51. L. ensifolia, Svv. ; firm and rigid, caudex very short 

 creeping, stipes (as vrell as the rachis) glabrous as long as, or 

 longer than, the pinnated frond, pinna) 5 — 13 linear-ensiform 

 or lanceolate erecto-patent submembranaceous sterile ones 

 subserrate, veins reticulated, sorus continuous round the 

 whole margin. — Siv. Syu. Fit. p. 118, t, 137. 



a. Fronds linear-ensiform obtuse, L. ensifolia, Sw. Syii. 

 Fil. ;;. 1 1 8, ^. 31 7. Willd. Sp. PL v. ;?. 420. Hook, and 

 Grer. Ic. Fil. Uih. III. Schizoloma ensifolium, ./. Sni. 

 Lindsfsa lanceolata, LabllL PL Nov. HolL ii. p. 98, /. 

 248,/. 1.- Br. Prodi: Nov. HolL p. 156. L. membrana- 

 cea, Kze. in Linnaa, t\ xviii, p. 121. L. pteroides, 

 IVaU. Cat. n. 2193. L. sublobata, Kze. in Linn<ea, v. 

 xviii, ;^ 121. Schizoloma Billardieri, Gaud, iji Freyc. 

 Voy. Bot. p. 380, 1. 17. Pteris stricta, Lam. Pteris an- 

 gulata, Pr. Pt. angustata, WalL 



(3. pinnules very long attenuated. L. attenuata, WalL Cat. 

 It. 2192. 



7. pinnules broad'^lanceolate attenuate. L. longipinna, 

 WalL Cat. n.2l94. 



Hab. Chiefly the tropical parts of the Old World. Madagascar (Kaul- 

 fuss). — a. Mauritius, Ceylon, Mrs. Gen. Walker, Macrae. ^lalacca, and 

 Khasiya, Griffith. Ma.i-ianne Ishiud, Gaudichaud. Sin<^apore, -D;-. Wallich. 

 Northern coasts of New Holland, Labillardiere, Brown. Port Natal, South 

 Africa, Gueimius,( Kze.) — 0. Mauritius and Sing^apore. — y. Tavoy, Mr. 

 Gomez. Ceylon, Mrs. Gen. Walker. Malacca, Cuming, n. 369. — ^A very 

 variable species in the length and breadth and acumination or blunt- 

 ness of the pinnules. Professor Kunze has published an L. membranacea, 

 from Port Natal ; it has longer pinnules and is more membranaceous than 

 the usual form of a. but is not otherwise distinct ; and his L. sublobata, in 

 the same work, 1. c. is Cuming's, n. 369, and no way distinct from L. ensi- 

 folia. 



52. L. macropfiyUa, Kaulf ; " fronds pinnated petiolate 

 ovate-oblong entire obtuse equal, sori continuous all round 

 the margin." Kaulf, En. Fil. p. 218, {not Hook. Gen. Fil. 



