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Fronds simple and coriaceous, narrow elongate and grass like. Pthizome short creeping or tufted. (Moore.) 
1. Vittaria ehngata (Svv.) — Candex creeping, and with the base of the stipes clothed with longish black hairs, fronds simple, 
long linear, grass-like, 8 to 30 in. long, 2 lines broad glabrous, with a long acuminatiou and gradually attenuated into the stipe. 
Anamallay hills, on trunks of trees in the Teal- forests,, from 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation — Nihjiris slopes behm Neddiwattan 
and Coonoor — a common fern. 
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TRIBE I. (§ U) PLATYLOME^. 
Platyloma, J. Srii. Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 160. 
(Pclla?a, Link.; Pteridis Sp. Anctoru7n.) 
Sori spuriously indusiate, marginal, oblong ; the receptacles oblong at the apices of the veins, contiguous, tlie spore cases lateral- 
ly confluent and forming a broadish marginal band. Indasium (spurious) formed of a narrow continuous attenuated inflexed portion of 
the margin. Veins simple or forked, from a central costa ; venules parallel, free soriferous along a portion of their length at the upper end. 
Fronds pinnate or bi-pinnate, coriaceous or sub-coriaceous, often glaucescent, the pinnaj sometimes articulated. Stipes often 
ebeneous. Rhizome short, decumbent or creeping {Moore.) 
I. Platuloma fxlcaUim, var. 13. setosmi (J. Sra.)-— Caudox creeping, fronds linear, oblong pinnate, pinnre (16—30) on very short 
petioles, upper ones sessile, oblong lanceolate, generally subfalcate, truncate or obliquely cordate, acute or often mucronate, glabrou.s 
above except on the costa, setose beneath, stipes and rachis setose with copious spreading ferruginous hairs, indusium .spurious, involute Avhen 
yovuig, at length obsolete — (Pellosa falcata. Fee, Hook. S'p. Fil. ii. 135); {Fter'm iahata, Br. Prod.) ; (Allosorus falcatus, Ktmze) ; (Pteris 
seticaulis. Hook Tc. pi. rar. iii. 209); (Pteris alternifolia. Wedl. Cat. n. 2182.) 
Anamallai/s—in moist woods, elevation 3,000 to 4,000 feet — Pidnc'j Hills — Xiljiris — Drooa hill, and ravines on the Coonoor 
Ghat.—Lampen's Peak near Coirnbatore. 
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TRIBE I. (§6) LINDS^E^. 
Linds.^:a, Dryander Trans. Lin. Soc. Lond. iii. 40. 
(Isoloma, J. Smith ; Lindsaynium, Fee. \ Lindsaya, Kaulfuss.) 
Sori hidusiate, linear or oblong, contiuTious or interrupted ; the receptacle sub-marginal. Indusium membranaceous, equalling 
or shorter than the margin of the frond, opening on the exterior side. Veins ecostate and flabellately forked, or forked from a central 
costa ; venules straight, combined at their apices by the receptacle, otherwise free ; sometimes thickened at their apices. 
Fronds herbaceous or subcoriaceous, simple pinnate or bi-tri-pinnate ; the pinnas (or pinnules) sometimes articulate, dimidiate 
or equal sided ; fertile only on the upper margin or on both margins. Pihizome creeping [Moore.) 
1. Lindsaya cnltrata (Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 119)— Caudex creeping, fronds pinnate, long lanceolate, pinnae sub-membranaceous, hori- 
zontal, ovate, costa marginal, the upper base truncate, rather acute, slightly arcuate at the upper margins, the apex usually directed up- 
wards, shortly and retusely lobed, the lobes bearing the oblong sori, stipes and rachis generally pale brown, the former occasionally 
black. {Hook. Sp. Fil. i, 203) ; (Adiantum Cultratum, Wild.) 
Kilgiris, very common on the banks of streams — common in most hilhj tracks on the tvestern side of our Presidene//. 
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2. Lindsa;a tenera (Dryander in Lin. Trans, iii. p. 42). Caudex creeping scaly, stipites tufted, fronds deltoid-ovate, 3—4 pinnate, 
pinnules all petiolate, cuneate or obliquely cuneate, costa obsolete, membranaceous, variously cut and lobed, the lobes soriferous at the apices 
(Hook. Sj>. Fil. i, 211) ; (Lindstea interrupta. Wall. Cat. n. 2195) ; Vittaria interrupta, Roxb. Crypt, pi. Ind. p. 4!)). 
Travancore hills — a rare fern. 
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