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rhizome (prostrate stem) and borne on erect, wiry, brownish-black, polished 

 stalks 4in. to 12in. long. It is very variable in character, also in the size 

 of its leaflets and in its ramification, as its elegant, narrow -spear- shaped fronds, 

 6m, to 12in. long, are sometimes simply pinnate (only once divided to the 

 midrib), Avhereas in other cases they are furnished with several pairs of 

 lateral branches and shortly- stalked and somewhat fan-shaped leaflets, their 

 lower line being straight or decmwed and the upper one rounded, entire or 

 lobed, with the point broadly rounded. The sori (spore masses) are disposed 

 in a continuous line, except when interrupted by the lobes. L. tenera is 

 a form of this species. — Hooker^ SjJecies Filicum^ i., p. 211, t. 63c. 

 Nicholson^ Dictionary of Gardening^ ii., p. 280. Beddome^ Ferns of British 

 India, t. 216. 



L. (Schizoloma) Fraseri — Schiz-ol-o'-ma ; Fra'-ser-i (Fraser's), Hooker. 



Though described as a species and illustrated in Hooker's " Species 

 Filicum " (vol. i., p. 221, t. 70b), it is not at all unlikely that this plant with 

 simply-pinnate fronds, native of Queensland, is only a small, delicate form 

 of L. heterophylla. — Hooker, Synojjsis Filicum, p. 112. 



L. (Schizoloma) Griffithiana— Schiz-ol-o'-ma ; Grif-fith-i-a'-na (Griflith's), 

 Hooker, 



A simple -fronded form of L. ensifolia, native of Mergui, Burmah. — 

 Hooker, Species Filicum, i., p. 219, t. 68b. Beddome, Ferns of British India, 

 t. 29. 



L, (Schizoloma) Gueriniana— Schiz-ol-o'-ma ; Guer-in-i-a'-na (Gucrin's), 

 Gaudichaud. 



This species, native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, is distinct in 

 general appearance from any other known lindsaya. Its long and very 

 narrow fronds, produced from a short- creeping, scaly rhizome (prostrate stem), 

 and borne on flexible stalks 4in. to 6in. long, are of a coriaceous (leathery) 

 texture and measure from 6in. to 9in. in length. They are oblong-spear- 

 shaped and simply pinnate (only once divided to the midrib), with leaflets 

 about ^in. long, egg-shaped or oblong, nearly entire, horizontal, and slightly 

 auricled (eared) at the base on the upper edge. The sori (spore masses) are 



