SCHIZOLOMA. 
SCHIZOLOMA MALABARICUM. (Bedd.) Caudex creeping, slightly scaly and furnished with thick wiry roots. Stipes — 
tetragonous a third of the length to nearly as long as the frond, frond simply pinnated, pinne numerous alternate (decreasing in size 
towards the apex of the frond), membranaceous half ovate from a truncated base, narrow towards the apex, costa close to the lower 
margin, veins quite free or occasionally one or two anastomosing. 
I have long considered this a variety of Schizoloma nitens (Bl.) figured at Plate XX VII of the Ferns of Southern India (under ` 
Wallich’s name recurvatum), I now feel certain that they are distinct species, I have found large beds of this in Wynaad and | ظ‎ 
South Canara, and it is always simply pinnate and its pinnules are half ovate with almost a pointed apex, whereas nitens is generally 
bipinnate and its pinnules have a very broad apex and often form an exact parallelogram ; the venation is besides different, in this species 
it is either quite free, or with only 1-2 veins anastomosing in each pinnæ ; in nitens all or almost all the veins anastomose, In Plate 
XXVII. of Ferns of Southern India, the artist has omitted the costa or marginal vein which runs close to the lower margin of the frond 
and the veins are erroneously represented as springing from the margin of the frond, 
Hab. Malabar, South Canara. 
PLATE No, 007. 
