74 ' Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



Very common on the western side of the Madras Presidency, up 

 to 6,000 feet, called the hay-scented fern, from its scent when drying. 

 Ceylon, higher altitudes in the central provinces. Himalayas, Nepal, 

 to Mishmee and Chittagong, up to 4,000 feet ; Birma and the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also in North Australia, Formosa, Japan, Malay Islands, and 

 East African Islands.) 



2. Lindsaya repens. (T/iza.) Caudex creeping, scaly; stipts 

 short; fronds rigid, membianaceous linear-lanceolate, 10-18 inches 

 long, \ inch broad, pinnate attenuated at the base; pinnae very 

 numerous, 40 or more pair, half deltoid-ovate obtuse or sub-acute, 



base nearly parallel with the rachis, and with the 

 lower margin quite entire, upper margin lobulate- 

 crenate, costa parallel with and close to the 

 margin ; veins simple or forked, free ; sori short, 

 oblong, one near the margin of each lobule. 

 7/iw. En. PI 388. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 209. 

 Odontoloma, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 93. Lindsaya 

 pectinata (Blume), Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 106. 

 N°37. ^ Ceylon, Singhe-Rajah Forest; Mishmee, 



lindsaya scandens. Khasya, Sikkim-Terai, Dulkajhar 1,000 feet; 

 {Hook.) Malay Peninsula. 



Also in the Malay Islands, Polynesia and Mauritius.) 



Var. (3 minor. A smaller form, more membranaceous, and more 

 deeply pinnatifid ; sori much shorter. Ihw. I. c. Bedd. F. S. I.t. 214. 



3. Lindsaya scandens. {Hook.) Rhizome stout, wide-creeping, 

 scandent, paleaceous; frond 9-12 inches long, ii-if inch broad, 

 simply pinnate; pinnae f inch long, \ inch broad, the lower line 

 slightly decurved, the upper rounded, entire, the point broadly 

 rounded, placed in a long row close together, but not imbricated ; 

 texture pellucid-herbaceous ; costa marginal ; sori in a continuous 

 marginal line. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 205, /. 63 B. ; Syn. Fil. p. 106. 

 Bedd, F. B. I. t. 298. 



The MaLy Peninsula. 



(Also in the Philippine Islands.) 



