Ferns of British India and Ceylon. yj 



9. Lindsaya lanuginosa. {Wall.) Rhizome creeping, stout, 

 clothed with fibrillose scales ; stipes stout, erect, 4-6 inches long ; 

 fronds 12-24 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, simply pinnate; pinna? 

 ii-2 inches long, |— | inch broad, linear entire or very slightly 

 toothed towards the point, which is acute in the fertile, bluntly 

 rounded in the barren frond ; texture coriaceous ; rachis pubescent ; 

 sori in a continuous line along both edges. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. no. 

 Bedd. F B. I. t. 140. 



Birraa and the Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in Tropical Australia, Mauritius, and Tropical Africa.) 



10. Lindsaya heterophylla. {Bedd.) Glabrous, fronds, 10-20 

 inches high; deltoid-bipinnate, in the lower portion, sometimes tripin- 

 nate, simply pinnate at the apex; lower pinna? 4-6 inches long, upper 

 ones gradually smaller and less compound, pinnules numerous, as 

 many as 20, very variable in form, subrotund, rhomboidal or lan- 

 ceolate, margin entire ; veins simple or forked, all free ; sori con- 

 tinuous round the whole margin except at the base, the larger pinnules 

 have a distinct midrib. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 206. 



This is more compound than any of the Indian forms of Schizo- 

 loma heterophylla ; but there is a form of that plant from Hong- 

 kong in the Kew Herbarium very like this in outline, but with the 

 veins anastomosing. I have examined many fronds of this plant, 

 and the veins never anastomose, and if it be lumped with Schizoloma 

 heterophylla, it at once does away with that genus or subgenus. I am, 

 however, inclined to consider it a distinct species more allied to 

 L. orbiculata var. tenera than to Schizoloma heterophylla. 



Shevaroy Hills (on the Green hills), Tinnevelly Mountains. 



GENUS XXII.— SCHIZOLOMA. {Gaud.) 



(Sd/izo, I cut; loma, margin.) 



As in Lindsaya, but veins more or less anastomosing. 



1. Schizoloma lobata. {Foir.) Rhizome short-creeping; 

 stipes 6-9 inches long, firm, erect; fronds pinnate; pinnae 1-6 pairs, 

 erect-patent, 3-6 inches long ; pinnules about \ inch long, i inch 



