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278 30. SCHIZOLOMA. § 1. ISOLOMA. 



rachis, the lowest deflexed, the others spreading, obtuse, entire, ± 1 V4 — 1 V: 

 c.M. long, + 7 — 10 m.M. broad, the upper base truncate, auriculate, the 

 auricle sometimes acute. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked, the upper one 

 black-caslaneous, the under ooe fuligineous ; veins free. Sori continuous. — 

 About one pinna in ten shows an anastomosis of veinlets. 

 Mindanao. 



(4) S. pellaeiforme, C. Chr., Ind. Fil. ; Lindsay a pellaeiformis, 

 Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 102, tab. XIV, fig. 14, a— b. 



Rhizome short, strong, slightly creeping, clothed with black-brown, spreading, 

 subulate scales. Stipes approximate, subtufted, blackish-red, polished, naked 

 or punctate, 10—20 c.M. long. Fronds ligulate-linear, + 30 c.M. long, 

 5 — 4 c.M. broad, simply pinaate. Terminal pinna oblong, slightly lobed. i^ateral 

 pinnae inequilateral, numerous (+ 40 on each side), close, spreading, sessile, 

 the lower ones short-stalked, ovate-rhomboidal, the base truncate & + auri- 

 cled above, cuneate & commonly slightly rounded below, the apex blunt, the mar- 

 gin entire or finely crenate. Texture papyraceous, pellucid, dark-green; veins 

 erecto-patent, simple or forked, the tips thickened. Sori occupying the upper 

 and lower margin, forming a continuous line on each side of the costa. 



Celebes. 



♦ (5) S. divergent, Suhn (not Diels), Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 58 ; 



Villaria divergens, Rb., Wail., List, No. 2191 ; Lmdsaya divergens. Ilk. ^ Grev. 

 (not Wall.), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 109; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCL; Hk. & 

 Grev., Ic. Fil., tab. CGXXVI. — var. auriculata, Christ, MS. in Herb. Bog. 

 Stipes approximate, wiry, erect, blackish, polished, 5 — 15 c.M. long. 

 / Fron^ J^^30 c.M. long, 3 — 5 c.M. broad, lanceolate, pinaate. Pinnae close, 

 BpFoadi«g, ^3Vit — 77j m.M. broad, the apex blunt, the edge entire or nearly so, 

 the upper base truncate, slightly auricled, the lower base rounded or cuneate, 

 lower pinnae ± reduced, + deflexed. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis naked, po- 

 lished; surfaces naked; veins forked, inconspicuous; costa present. Sori conti- 



Pinnae distinctly auricled 

 upper side. 

 Malaya. 



iisucu, suiiducs iia&cu, vcms iuii4.t3u, uicoiispicuous ; cosia prescni. oori conii- 

 nuous along both sides and the apex. '/^ / Ot^^Ui-^e. Ua-U - /i-^^n^' ^ 

 ¥ar. auriculata: Pinnae distinctly auricled iix the base on the 



• (6) S. IW^alkerae, jr«hn, Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam. 

 I*, 218; Lindsaya Walherae, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 109; Hk., Spec. Fil., I, 

 tab. LXIX, A; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CCXV. 



