30. SCHIZOLOMA. § 1. ISOLOMA. 279 



Rhizome creeping, ferrugineous, with scale-like hairs. Stipes wiry^ erect, 

 15 — 30 c.M. long and as well as the rachis dark-coloured, glossy. Fronds 

 IS — 30 c.M. long, with a terminal pinna and 6 — 9 pairs of similar lateral 

 ones. Pinnae 3'/2 — 10 c.M. long, '/a — 1 c.M. broad, distant, erecto-patent, 

 gradually narrowing from a cuneate base towards the bluntish or acute apex, 

 the highest ones sometimes confluent with the terminal. Texture coriaceous; 

 rachis naked; veins numerous, [very oblique. Sori in a continuous line along ^ 

 both edges. , V D 



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§ 2. EUSCHIZOLOMA. 



Fronds dimorphous, simple, forked or ternale. 



if;. Barren fronds cordate-oblong, simple. (7) S. cordatum. 



i(..i(.. Barren fronds deltoid, 3-partite. (8) S. trilobatum. 



, Fronds uniform, pinnate, rarely simple or 2 — 3 X pinnate. 

 b. Pinnae simple, spreading or falcate, i — 2 c.M. long. 



(9) S. Guerinianum. 

 6.6. Pinnae erecto-patent, 3 '/a — i5 c.M. long or longer. 

 c. Pinnae simple, linear or lanceolate, acuminate. 



d. Sterile edges not entire. (10) S. ensifolium. 



d.a. Sterile edges entire. (11) S. coriaceum. 



c.c. Pinnae varying from simple to irregularly 2-pinnate. Leaflets se- 

 miorbicular, triangular, trapezoidal or cuneate-obovate, blunt or 

 bluntish. (12) S. heterophyllum. 



« (7) S. corclatuiu. Gaud., Bedd., Handb. Ind. Ferns, 79; Ferns 

 Br.L, II, tab. CCIG ; Lindsay a cordata. Gaud., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 111. 



Rhizome short-creeping. Stipes 7 — 20 c.M. long, slender, erect, wiry. 

 Fronds dimorphous. Barren fronds 3 '/a — 7^2 c.M. long, S'/j— 4 c.M. broad, 

 cordate-oblong, - quite entire, fertile ones 7—18 c.M. long, linear, simple, 

 forked or tripartite. Texture coriaceous. Sori in a continuous, line along the 

 margin. 



Malaya. 



