— Lygodium.) SCHIZ HACE. 1261 
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A short-creeping fern, with woody rhizome 
2838. AcrosTIcHUM LANCEOLATUM Hook. Gymmnopteris variabilis 
var. lanceolata F. I. C. 429. 
Chittagong. 
A wide-creeping fern, with woody rhizome. 
2839. AcRosTICHUM AXILLARE Cav. Gymmnopteris variabilis var. 
. 430 
axillaris 
BK. Dengal 
A wide-climbing fern, with entire fronds. 
2840. peat NS AuREUM Linn.; F. I. C. 440. A. emargt- 
natum F. I. 749 (Ed. C. B. C.). 
C. Bengal; E. Bengal; Sundribuns; Chittagong. 
A common fern of tidal marshes. 
Order CLIY. SCHIZEZACEA, 
Herbs, often climbing ; fronds palmate or pinnate ; veins free ; 
Vernation circinate. Soré lateral, with 2-valved sporangia that are 
_ ¢rowned by a complete opercular ring, and open down the sides. 
< Tufted herbs with simple we Science fronds ; Schizea 
Climbing herbs with Lygodium. 
1147. Schizea Sm. ; 
Small, tufted herbs; fronds simple or forked; veins free. 
Sporangia sessile, in 2-4 rows, on one side of close, distichous 
Spikes, that form separate fertile segments at tips of fronds. 
841. Scuizma pieirata Sw.; F. I. C. 452. 
Chittagong. 
A small fern, with tufted stipes; fertile spikes 6-15. 
1148. Lygodium Sw. 
Climbing herbs, with wide-twining stems; fronds scandent ; 
Pinne conjugate, palmately lobed, pinnatifid, or pinnate; veins 
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ge, imbricated, clasping indusia, that form spikes either on 
_ Separate pinne or in lax rows along the margins of leafy ones. 
_ Barren fronds when fully developed palmate or 2-partite into 2 palmate 
lobes : circinatum 
_ Barren fronds pinnate :— 
Fronds simply pinnat sterile pinnw about twice as long as broad, 
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