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Himalayas, Nepal to Mishmee and Chittagong 
up to 4,000 feet ;, Burma; Malay Peninsula— 
North Australia; Formosa; Japan; Malay 
Islands ; East African Islands. 
Genus XII.—Scuizotoma Gaup. 
= (Deriv. Gr. Schizo, 1 cut ; loma, margin.) 
Veins more or less uniting. Pinnz unequal- 
sided or equal-sided. 
(a) Pinnz unilateral (unequal-sided). 
tg 1. S. lobata. 
(>) Pinnz equilateral (equal-sided). 
(2) Frond pinnate. Pinne rarely reduced 
to one, 14-6 inches long, }-1 inch 
broad, gradually tapering from a 
broad unequal base. 
2. S. ensifolia. 
'(#) Frond pinnate with large linear- 
lanceolate pinne or bipinnate, 
occasionally tripinnate ; pinnules 
4-1 inch long, } inch broad, entire 
or unequally lobed. 
3, S. heterophylla. 
