﻿29. LlNDSAYA. § 5. SYNAPHLEBIUM. 275 



4—20 c.M. long. Leaflets 1— I'/aC.M. long, 5— TVj ruM. broad, the lower 

 margin straight or slightly curved, the upper with 3 — 6 regular, oblong, 

 rounded lobes reaching ± Vs'^^Y down, placed close together, but not im- 

 bricate. Texture pellucido-herbaceous. Sori terminal on the lobes. — High 

 alpine forms not rarely unbranched. 

 Malaya. 



(33) li. ambigenis, Ces., Pel. Becc. Polin., 3 & 7 ; (? L. decom- 

 posita, Willd., C. Chr,, Ind. Fil.). 



Like L. davallioides, BL, but the lobes of the leaflets truncate. 

 New Guinea. 



(34) Ei. fiaraiSinoriiiii, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 101, tab. XIV, 

 fig. 13, a— b. 



Rhizome short-creeping. Stipes clustered, reddish-brown, ± 12 c.M. long, 

 provided like the rachis with scattered, brown scales. Fronds ± 8 — ^12 c.M. 

 long, simply pinnate, or 2-pinnate with a pair of lateral branches below the 

 ceutral one. Leaflets dimidiate near the base, becoming ± equilateral towards 

 the apex, ± 3 c.M, long, narrowly oval or rhomboidal, strongly bent out- 

 wards, the upper and outer edges rounded with 4 — 5 lobes, which are broad, 

 obtuse, often lobed again; primary lobes + '/2 ^^ '^^ep as the breadth of 

 the leaflets. Texture herbaceous; surfaces naked. Sori thick, brown, terminal 

 on the lobes. 



. Celebes, Philippines. 



30. SCfflZOLOIVIJ?L, Gaudichaud. 



Sori linear or linear-oblong, uniting the apices of many veins. Indusium 

 of the same shape, continuous, attached at the inner side of the sorus, opening 

 outwardly. 



Rhizome mostly short. Fronds simple or generally pinnate; leaflets 

 equal-sided or unequal-sided, but not dimidiate; veins free or anastomosing. 

 Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl Fam., I*, fig. 118. 



Tropical and extra-tropical. 



