166 



LIHDS^EA. (See " Ferns of Southern India," p. 7.) 



LlNDSiEA RIGIDA. (J. Sm.) Caudex long creeping scaly, rough with short distant inconspicuous prickles, frond bipin- 

 iiate rigid (rufescent) subfalcate, piunte 7-9 remote linear alternate falcate, terminal one very long, pinnules approximate coriaceous flabel- 

 late or rhombeo— or oblong— flabellate, upper base truncate, lower margins straight or slightly arched, upper one semi-circular lobed and 

 crenated margined, veins very prominent on both sides, sori abbreviated quite marginal on one or two terminal lobes, involucres coriace- 

 ous. Hook. Sp. Fii. i. 217, J. Sm. in Hook. Joum, of Bot. iii. p. 415. 



The specimen figured is from Malacca. 



Hab. Malacca, Mount Ophir. 



PLATE No. CLXVI. 



