Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



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i. Lvgodium circinatum. (Sw.) Fully developed barren frond, 

 bipartite into 2 palmate lobes or simply palmate, primary petiole so 

 much reduced that the fork seems almost to spring from the main 

 rachis, secondary petiole 1-2 inches long, firm, naked, pinnules 

 digitate, with 5-6 long lanceolate lobes, reaching nearly down to the 

 base, or once or even twice-forked, ultimate barren divisions 4-12 

 inches long, -§— §• inch broad, the fertile ones contracted sometimes 

 so much so, that the lamina is nearly lost, the spikes 1-2 lines long, 

 in close marginal rows, texture subcoriaceous, surfaces naked. Sw. 

 Syn. Fil. 153. Thw. E71.Pl. 

 &)'■ p- 379- pedatum, Sw. 

 154. L. dichotomum, Bedd. 

 F. S. I. 62. Wall. Cat. 176. 

 Hook. Syn. Fil. 437. 



North India, Chittagong 

 Hills; Ceylon, western, cen- 

 tral, and southern provinces, 

 up to 2,000 feet elevation ; 

 Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay 

 Islands ; Philippines ; Hong 

 Kong and Chusan.) 



2. Lycodiu.m micro- 

 phyllum. (R. Br.) Fronds 

 simply pinnate, pinnules pe- 

 tioled, 3-4 on each side of 

 the zigzag rachis, with a terminal one which is more or less lobed, 

 barren pinme ovate-oblong, blunt, the margin subentire or rarely some- 

 what lobed, the base rounded or cordate, fertile ones short, deltoid, 

 with generally a very rounded apex, and a square base and lobed 

 round the margin. R. Br. Prod. 162. Wall. Cat. 174. L. scan- 

 dens, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 61. 



South India, Malabar and West Coast generally, very common 

 in the plains, and also in the Wynad, up to about 3,000 feet eleva- 



LYGODIUM CIRCINATUM. (Sw.) 



