So Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



4. Schizoloma gueriniana. (Gaud.) Rhizome creeping, palea- 

 ceous ; stipes 4-6 inches long, articulate with the rachis ; fronds 6-9 

 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate, pinnae f— | inch long, 

 ovate or oblong, nearly entire, horizontal or falcate, slightly auricled 

 at the base on the upper edge; texture subcoriaceous ; sori in a con- 

 tinuous line along both margins. Syn. Fil. /.in; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 

 p. 221. Bedd. F B. I. t. 340. 



Malacca. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



5. Schizoloma ensifolia. (Swartz) Rhizome creeping, stout, 

 paleaceous ; stipes 6-9 inches long, wiry, fiexuose ; fronds 6-1 2 

 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, with a linear-lanceolate simple or 

 pinnatifid apex, simply pinnate below, pinnae herbaceous, usually in 

 many pairs, rarely reduced to one, all stalked, 1^-6 inches long, l-i 

 inch broad, varying from linear-acuminate to lanceolate, sterile ones 

 only a little toothed ; veins copiously anastomosing ; sori in a con- 

 tinuous marginal line. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 112. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 24. 

 (Griffithiana (Hook.), Bedd. F B. I. t. 29 is a simple form.) 



Western mountains of Madras ; Ceylon ; Himalayas, Sikkim to 

 Muneypore and Chittagong up to 4,000 feet ; Birma. 



(Also in North Australia, Tropical Africa and its eastern islands, 

 Polynesia.) 



6. Schizoloma heterophylla. (Dry.) Rhizome creeping; 

 stipes 4-8 inches long, firm, naked, erect; frond 6-12 inches long, 

 3-6 inches broad, lanceolate or oblong, deltoid, varying from simply- 

 pinnate with large linear-lanceolate entire pinnse, to bipinnate with 

 erect-patent branches 3-4 inches long, with oblong-lanceolate blunt 

 pinnules f-i inch long % inch broad, texture herbaceous ; sori in 

 continuous marginal lines. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 112. Bedd. F. S. I. 

 t. 25. 



Malabar Mountains, Travancore ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 

 (Also in Mauritius, Hong-kong, and Malay Islands.) 



