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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
branches, 4-8 inches long ; pinnules 3-4 lines broad, 2 lines deep, 
the lower edge often falcate, the upper 3-4 times bluntly, not deeply 
lobed, close together, but not imbricate ; texture very thick, 
coriaceous ; veins prominent ; sori in a marginal line on the lobes. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 108. Bedd. F. B. L 1, 166. 
Malacca, on Mount Ophir. 
§ § Pinnce equilateral. 
7. LiNDSAYA Walkers. {Hook.) Rhizome creeping, thicker 
than a crow's quill, ferruginous with scale-like hairs. Stipes very 
long, often i foot, and as well as the rachis dark purple, glossy ; 
fronds lanceolate, pinnate, 6 inches to i 
long, pinnae 6-9 pairs, with a terminal one, 
which is sometimes confluent with one or 
both of the upper pair, coriaceous, sub- 
opposite, remote, lanceolate or Hnear- 
lanceolate, equal, costa central, veins 
copious, almost parallel with the costa ; 
sorus marginal, continuous on both sides. 
Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 209. Syn. Fil. 109. Bedd. 
F. S. I. t 215. 
Ceylon, Hinidoon Corle in swamps. 
(Also the island of Banca, east of 
Sumatra.) 
8. LiNDSAYA DIVERGENS. {Wall.) Rhi- 
zome creeping ; stipes and rachis ebony- 
black, glossy; fronds lanceolate-pinnate; 
pinnae approximate, crowded, horizontal- 
lanceolate, obtuse, subsemihastate at the base, glaucous beneath, the 
sides equal ; costa central ; veins oblique, once forked, distant, in- 
ternal, obscure ; sorus marginal and continuous on both edges and 
at the apex. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 210; Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. f. 
226. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 250. Vittaria divergens. Herb. Roxb. Wall. 
Cat. n. 2191. 
Malacca. 
(Also in Borneo.) 
