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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
Very common on the western side of the Madras Presidency, up 
to 6jOoo feet, called the hay-scented fern, from its scent when drying. 
Ceylon, higher altitudes in the central provinces. Himalayas, Nepal, 
to Mishmee and Chittagong, up to 4,000 feet ; Birma and the Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in North Australia, Formosa, Japan, Malay Islands, and 
East African Islands.) 
2. LiNDSAYA REPENS. {Thw.) Caudcx Creeping, scaly; stipes 
short; fronds rigid, membianaceous linear-lanceolate, 10-18 inches 
long, \ inch broad, pinnate attenuated at the base; pinnae very 
numerous, 40 or more pair, half deltoid-ovate obtuse or sub-acute, 
base nearly parallel with the rachis, and with the 
lower margin quite entire, upper margin lobulate- 
crenate, costa parallel with and close to the 
margin ; veins simple or forked, free ; sori short, 
oblong, one near the margin of each lobale. 
Thw. En. PI. 388. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 209. 
Odontoloma, Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 93. Lindsaya 
pectinata (Blume), Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 106. 
Ceylon, Singhe-Rajah Forest; Mishmee, 
Khasya, Sikkim-Terai, Dulkajhar 1,000 feet; 
Malay Peninsula. 
Also in the Malay Islands, Polynesia and Mauritius.) 
Var. /) MINOR. A smaller form, more membranaceous, and more 
deeply pinnatifid ; sori much shorter. Thw. I. c. Bedd. F. S. I.t. 214. 
3. Lindsaya scandens. (Hook.) Rhizome stout, wide-creeping, 
scandent, paleaceous; frond 9-12 inches long, i^-if inch broad, 
simply pinnate; pinnae f inch long, \ inch broad, the lower line 
slightly decurved, the upper rounded, entire, the point broadly 
rounded, placed in a long row close together, but not imbricated ; 
texture pellucid-herbaceous ; costa marginal ; sori in a continuous 
marginal line. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 205, /. 63 B. ; Syn. Fil. p. 106. 
Bedd, F. B. I. t 298. 
The Maby Peninsula. 
(Also in the Philippine Islands.) 
N°37. 
LINDSAYA SCANDENS 
{Hook.) 
