upper pinnae gradually smaller and subtrapezoid, sori margi- 

 nal interrupted. (Tab. LXX. B.) 



Hub. Ni)rth coast of New Holland, Stradbroke Island, Fraser. Port 

 Essington, All. CunningfKnn.—Mv. J. Smith has suggested that this may 

 be a state of L. heterophylla, Dry.; but my specimens from Mr." Fraser 

 and those of Mr. Smith from Mr. Allan Cunningham are so perfect and 

 unifonn and so different from that species that I am unwilling to unite 

 them. Here the stipes (dark brown below) is shorter than the frond, the 

 latter being 8— 10 inches or almost a foot long, rachis straw-coloured 

 slender, pinna; remote, except the uppermost ones, generally opposite or 

 nearly so, remote, membranaceous,, pellucid, the largest of them about 

 three-quarters of an inch long. 



f I Costa excentric marginal or obsolete. Sori on the superior margin of the 

 unequal pinncE. (Synaphlebium, J. Sm.), Sp. 55, 56. 



55. L. intermedia, Hook, ; stipes longer than the frond 

 tetragonous, frond oblong pinnated, pinnae rhoniboideo-lan- 

 ceolate submembranaceous rather rigid reticulate, inferior half 

 obliquely cut out to the costa, the rest of the pinnae with the 

 costa or principal vein central, sorus continued round the mar- 

 gin except in the lower base. (Tab. LXVII. B.) 



iS. minor ; Synaphlebium recurvatum, J. Sm. in Lond. Bot. 

 Journ. V. iii. p. 415 {natne only), excl. the syns. 



Hab. Phillipine Islands, Cuming, n. 464 ; and ^. Malacca, n. 392.— 

 This is another instance, in my opinion, of the instability of the Genus 

 Synaphlebium (J. Sm.), as distinguished from Schizoloma (supposing that 

 itself to be a good Genus). In the present instance one-half of the pinnae 

 is indicative of the former Genus, the other of the latter. There is pro- 

 bably an error in numbering some of Mr. Cuming's specimens of this fern. 

 His n. 404, according to Mr. J. Smith, is a true Lindseea, which he refers 

 to L. clecomposita, and seems to answer to ray n. 405, which I have refer- 

 red to L. scandens, Hook. Mr. Cuming's n. 392 is a small var. of this 

 species which Mr. J. Smith refers to L. recurvata, Reinw. 



56. L. recurvata, Wall. ; caudex creeping, stipites tufted 

 longer than the frond tetragonous, frond oblong pinnated, 

 pinnae oblong very obtuse recurvato-falcate subcoriaceo-mem- 

 branaceous reticulated, the superior base truncate, the costa 

 forming the lower margin, sorus continued along the upper 

 margin and to the very apex. (Tab. LXX. A.) L. recurvata. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 149 ; Reinw. MSS. {?iot Synaphlebium recur- 

 vatum, J. Sm.) L. nitens, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 217. L. ser- 

 pens. Wall. Cat.n. 150. 



Hab. Singapore, Dr. Wallich. Java, Reintcardt. Malacca, Penang, 

 (Griffith. — Nearly allied to the preceding {L. intermedia), but the ai)ex of 

 the pinnse is veiy obtuse, and the lower margin curved downwards 

 (uu)re or less) for its whole length, while that whole length is 



