Ferns of British India and Ceylon, 



457 



tion ; Ceylon, abundant ; North India, Bengal plains, rare ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Islands.) 



3. Lygodium flexuosum. (Sw.) Fronds glabrous or slightly 

 hairy, pair of fronds stipitate-pinnate with the pinnules again pinnate 

 or variously lobed, or subpalmate, all serrulate ; sori protruding from 

 the margin ; texture subcoriaceous. Sw. Syn. Fil. 153. Bedd. F. 



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* '^f H°. 283. 



I.YGODIUM FLEXUOSUM. (S'U 



W N° 284. 



LYGODIUM POLYSTACIIYUM. {Wall.) 



S. I. t. 63. L. pinnatifidum, Sw. 153. L. longifolium, Wall. Cat. 

 1 75- 



South India, on both sides of the Madras Presidency, common 

 up to about 4,000 feet elevation ; North India, plains, and up to 

 5,000 feet on the Himalayas ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 



(Also in the Malay Islands; Philippines; North Australia, 

 and Tropical Africa.) 



4. Lygodium JAPONICUM. (Sw.) As in flexuosum, only that 



