Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 77 
9. LiNDSAYA LANUGINOSA. {Wall.) Rhizomc creeping, stout, 
clothed with fibrillose scales : stipes stout, erect, 4-6 inches long ; 
fronds 12-24 inches long, 3-4 inches broad, simply pinnate; pinn?e 
i\-2 inches long, \-\ inch broad, linear entire or very slightly 
toothed towards the point, which is acute in the fertile, bluntly 
rounded in the barren frond ; texture coriaceous ; rachis pubescent ; 
sori in a continuous line along both edges. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. no. 
Bedd, F. B. I. t. 140. 
Birma and the Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Tropical Australia, Mauritius, and Tropical Africa.) 
10. LiNDSAYA HETEROPHYLLA. {Bedd.) Glabrous, fronds, 10-20 
inches high ; deltoid-bipinnate, in the lower portion, sometimes tripin- 
nate, simply pinnate at the apex; lower pinnae 4-6 inches long, upper 
ones gradually smaller and less compound, pinnules numerous, as 
many as 20, very variable in form, subrotund, rhomboidal or lan- 
ceolate, margin entire ; veins simple or forked, all free ; sori con- 
tinuous round the whole margin except at the base, the larger pinnules 
have a distinct midrib, Bedd. F. S. I. t. 206. 
This is more compound than any of the Indian forms of Schizo- 
loma heterophylla ; but there is a form of that plant from Hong- 
kong in the Kew Herbarium very like this in outline, but with the 
veins anastomosing. I have examined many fronds of this plant, 
and the veins never anastomose, and if it be lumped with Schizoloma 
heterophylla, it at once does away with that genus or subgenus. I am, 
however, inclined to consider it a distinct species more aUied to 
L. orbiculata var. tenera than to Schizoloma heterophylla. 
Shevaroy Hills (on the Green hills), Tinnevelly Mountains. 
GENUS XXII.— SCHIZOLOMA. {Gaud.) 
{Schizo, I cut; loma, margin.) 
As in Lindsaya, but veins more or less anastomosing. 
I . Schizoloma lobata. {Poir.) Rhizome short-creeping ; 
stipes 6-9 inches long, firm, erect ; fronds pinnate ; pinnae 1-6 pairs, 
erect-patent, 3-6 inches long ; pinnules about \ inch long, f inch 
