Prats 62. 
LINDSASA eysrroxtia, Sw. 
Sword-leaved Lindsea. 
Linpsaa (Schizoloma) exsifolia ; caudex very short, creeping ; stipes a span and 
more long; fronds firm, membranaceous, situple, or more or less pinnated, 
six to twelve inches long; pinnae three to eleven or fifteen, all petioled, 
varying from linear-ensiform to lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, much acumi- 
nated, sterile ones subserrated; veins forked, the branches anastomosing 
and forming large oblong angled areoles; sorus continuing round the 
whole margins of the pinne. 
Linps@a ensifolia. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 118 and 317. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 420. 
Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 3. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 1. p. 221. 
Scuizotoma ensifolium. J. Sm. 
Linpsa lanceolata. Ladill. Pl. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 98. t. 248. f. 1. Brown, 
Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 156. 
Linps#a membranacea. Kze. in Linnea, v. 18. p. 121. 
Linps2a pteroides, atl, Cat. n. 2193. 
Linps#®a sublobata. Kze. in Linnea, v. 18. p. 121. 
ScuizoLoMa Billardieri. Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 380. t. 17. 
Linps#a attenuata. Wall, Cat. n, 2192. 
Linpsa longipinna. Wall. Cat. n. 2194. 
Linps#a Griffithiana. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 219. t. 68 B (young or simple state of 
the frond, yet fertile), and L. pentaphylla, Hook. 1. c. t. 67 A). 
Has. Abundant all over the warm parts of continental India and countries and 
islands in the adjacent seas. In In«hia proper extending from the western 
to the eastern extremity and through the Malay peninsula to China (from 
Hongkong, Wilford, oue specimen has pinne ten inches long and an inch 
and a quarter broad) and the Malayan Islands, Luzon, Java, Borneo, 
Singapore, etc.; Ceylon, common; Manritius; Madagascar (Kauifuss) ; Isle 
of Nissobi, Boivin, extending westward to Natal, Gueinzius, and Graham’s 
Town, Sanderson, and even to the west coast of ‘l'ropical Africa, where it 
was recently detected in the Nun River, Gustav Mann; Australia, La 
Billardiére, Brown, Allan Cunningham; probably most abundant in the 
north, Fitzmaurice River, Albany, Stradbrooke Island, and Moreton Bay, 
Hill, Dr. F. Mueller ; Fiji Islands, Milne, Seemann. Tt seems nowhere to 
be an inhabitant of the New World, and Africa only one locality, above 
* mentioned, has as yet been detected. Cultivated at Kew. 
As may be judged from the copious synonyms above given, 
this pretty Zévdsea has a very extensive geographical range, and 
the plants being liable to very trifling forms are regarded as 
APRIL lst, 1962. 
