Lindsm.] OLVI. FILICES. 1955 



branched specimens of L. flahelhdata, but the fertile pinnules often more than 

 ^in. broad, and the veinlets frequently anastomosing. — Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 52. 



Hab.: Endeavour and Bloomfield Rivers, N. Taylor ; Eockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Hull 

 Biver, W. Hill. 

 Also in East India, the Malayan Archipelago and the South Pacific Islands. 



6. Ii. microphylla (small-leaved). Smarts.; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 218; 

 Syn. Filic. 110 ; Benth. Fl. Auatr. vii. 720. Rhizome knotted, shortly creeping. 

 Fronds 6in. to Ijft. high, bipinnate, the main rhachis wiry but slender, usually 

 flexuose. Primary pinnsB ^ to lin. or the lower ones nearly 2in. long. Barren 

 pinnules varying from ovate to lanceolate, toothed or lobed ; fertile ones obovate 

 cuneate or almost fan-shaped, equilateral, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines broad, undivided 

 with a continuous sorus, or notched or lobed with the sori interrupted. — Hook, 

 and Grev. Ic. Filic. t. 194; Sieb. Fl. Mixt. n. 234; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 119; 

 Bail. Litho. Ferns, Ql. 54. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, Fraser ; and many other southern localities. 



7. Ii. incisa (cut), Prent. in Trim. Journ. Bot. 1873, 295 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vii. 721. Rhizome slender, long creeping, bright-golden, clothed with 

 hair-like bright scales. Fronds from 3 or 4in. to 2ft. long, pinnate. Pinnules 

 small, the fertile ones and most of the barren ones divided to the rhachis 

 into 2 or 3 cuneate segments 1 to 2 lines long, and usually the barren pinnules 

 on the same rhachis as the fertile ones and below them. — Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 

 55. 



Hab.: Near Brisbane, Prentice, Bailey ; Soutbport, Schneider. 



8. I.. Praseri (after C. Fraser), Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 221, t. 70, Syn. Filic. 

 112; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 721. Rhizome creeping. Fronds with a short 

 stipes erect, simply pinnate, f to l|ft. high. Pinnules distant, from almost 

 ovate to lanceolate, equilateral, obtuse, truncate or cordate at the base and 

 shortly petiolate, mostly 4 to 8 lines long, the upper ones smaller and obovate 

 or rhomboidal, and the barren ones often larger and denticulate, the veinlets 

 frequently anastomosing. Sori marginal, continuous or slightly interrupted.— 

 Bail. Litho. Ferns, Ql. 56 ; Schizoloma Fraseri, J. Sm. ; Bail. Ql. Ferns, 20. 



Hab.: About the southern coastal swamps. 



9. Ii. ensifolia (leaves sword-shaped), Swartz. ; Hook. Spec. Filic. i. 220, Syn. 

 Filic.ll2; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 721. Rhizome creeping. Fronds simply pinnate, 

 6 to 18in. high. Pinnules exceedingly variable in number size and shape, the 

 barren ones at the base often small, irregularly ovate or obovate but sometimes lan- 

 ceolate like the fertile ones, serrulate, rarely lobed ; fertile ones in the middle 

 sometimes only 2 or 3, sometimes nearly 20, lanceolate, 1 to 4in. long, the frond 

 ending in a long lanceolate lobe occasionally broken up into .small obovate 

 segments. Veins more or less anastomosing. Sori continued along the whole 

 margin except the short equally cuneate base. — Hook, and Grev. Ic. Filic. t. Ill ; 

 F. V. M. Fragm. v. 118 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns, Ql. 57 ; L. lanceolata, Labill. PI. 

 Nov. Boll. ii. 98, t. 218 ; R. Br. Prod. 156 ; L. pentaphylla, Hook. ^pec. Filic. 

 i. 219, t. 67 ; Schizoloma ensifolium, 3. Sm. ; Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 25. 



Hab: Shoalwater Bay and Port Bowen, R. Brown; Cape York, Daemel; Albany Islands, 

 F. V. Mueller; Daintree River, Fitzalan ; Gilbert Biver, Daintree ; Mount Woeeler, Tliozet; 

 Moreton Bay, W. Hill, F. v. Mueller. Common. •. n -^ 



Also in the Masoarene Islands, East India, the Malayan Archipelago and South Pacihc 

 Islands. . 



Var. heterophylla. A few or many or all the pinnsB elongated and wholly or partially divided 

 into small pinnules or segments.— Bait. 'Litho. Fern. Ql. 57. 



Hab.: Carpentaria Islands, R. Brown: York Peninsula, N. Taylor; Cape York, Daemel; 

 Rockingham Bay, Dallachy, IV, Hill ; Daintree River, Fitzalan, A common fern of the northern 

 coastal swamp. 



