264 29. LINDSAYA. § 1. ODONTOLOMA. 



* (7) li. Merrilli, Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 61. 



Rhizome strong, scandent, reddish-brown, glossy, nearly naked or clothed 

 with spreading, ferrugineous, lanceolate, entire scales. Stipes ± 2 — 5 c.M. 

 long, strong, slightly scaly, brownish or stramineous. Fronds 40 — 80 c.M. 

 long, 3 — 4 c.M. broad, simply pinnate, narrowed towards both ends. Leaflets 

 sessile, subsessile or short-stalked, the largest to 22 m.M long, 5 — 9 m.M. 

 broad near the rachis, the base cuneate, the lower edge straight or cturved 

 especially near the base, the upper edge inciso-crenate, the apex* acute or 

 bluntish; crenations + acute, the higher ones sometimes suddenly elon- 

 gated and forked so as to form abnormal, linear, simple or bifid lobes. Tex- 

 ture membranaceous; rachis stramineous and like the surfaces naked; veins 

 free, 1 to each crenation, the apices sometimes uniting. Sori submarginal, 

 the tips of the lobes projecting beyond them, solitary in the crenations or 

 occasionally confluent in pairs. 



Philippines. 



* (8) li. hymenophylloides, m., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 294; 

 L. Lapeyrousii, Bk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 106; Davallia hymenophylloides, Bk., 

 Hk. Bk., 1. c, 93; Hk., Icon. PL, XVII, tab. MDCXXIII; B. Lapeyrousii, Hk., 

 2* Cent, of Ferns, tab. LVI. See Supplement 1. 



Rhizome slender, wide-creeping, scaly. Stipes short, to 5 c.M. long. 

 l?ronds simply pinnate, lanceolate, 10—40 c.M. long, 2 — 4 c.M. broad. Leaflets 

 close, oblong, + 3 — 5 m.M. broad, the lower edge entire, straight or slightly 

 curved, the upper margin deeply pinnatipartite nearly to the lower edge into 

 5 — 8 narrow, linear-cuneate, truncate lobes. Texture thinly herbaceous r 

 veins 1 to each lobe, simple or forked; surfaces naked. Sori transversally 

 oblong, subterminal on the lobes, solitary, or rarely double and confluent. 



Malaya; Polynesia. 



* (9) Ij. capillacea, Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss., VI, 144, tab. IV, 

 fig. 7, a— e; (? L. pectinata, Bl, Christ, 1. c, 2^ S6rie, VI, 1006). 



Rhizome creeping, filiform, intertwined. Stipes filiform, brownish, nak- 

 ed. Fronds + 10 c.M. long, ± 10 m.M. broad, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 simply pinnate. Leaflets alternate, + S m.M. long, triangular-oblong, the 

 lower edge entire, the upper edge cut nearly or quite down into 3 — 4 

 segments, which are + spreading, linear-cuneate, the lower ones forked, 

 the apices of all truncate, 2 — 3-dentate. Texture thin, weak, flaccid ; 

 rachis green, naked; surfaces naked; 1 central vein to each lobe, Sori 



