So 
Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
4. ScHizoLOMA GUERiNiANA. {Gaud.) Rhizomc Creeping, palea- 
ceous ; stipes 4-6 inches long, articulate with the rachis ; fronds 6-9 
inches long, oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate, pinnae -|— | inch long, 
ovate or oblong, nearly entire, horizontal or falcate, slightly auricled 
at the base on the upper edge; texture subcoriaceous ; sori in a con- 
tinuous line along both margins. Syn. Fil /.in; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. 
221. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 340. 
Malacca. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
5 . ScHizoLOMA ENSiFOLiA. {Swartz) Rliizomc creepiog, stout, 
paleaceous; stipes 6-9 inches long, wiry, flexuose; fronds 6-12 
inches long, 3-4 inches broad, with a linear-lanceolate simple or 
pinnatifid apex, simply pinnate below, pinnae herbaceous, usually in 
many pairs, rarely reduced to one, all stalked, i\-6 inches long, \-i 
inch broad, varying from linear-acuminate to lanceolate, sterile ones 
only a little toothed ; veins copiously anastomosing ; sori in a con- 
tinuous marginal line. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 112. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 24. 
(Griffithiana (Hook.), Bedd. F. B. /. f. 2g is a simple form.) 
Western mountains of Madras ; Ceylon ; Himalayas, Sikkim to 
Muneypore and Chittagong up to 4,000 feet ; Birma. 
(Also in North Australia, Tropical Africa and its eastern islands, 
Polynesia.) 
6. SCHIZOLOMA HETEROPHYLLA. (Dry.) Rhizomc creeping; 
stipes 4-8 inches long, firm, naked, erect; frond 6-12 inches long, 
3-6 inches broad, lanceolate or oblong, deltoid, varying from simply- 
pinnate with large linear-lanceolate entire pinnae, to bipinnate with 
erect-patent branches 3-4 inches long, with oblong-lanceolate blunt 
pinnules -l-i inch long ^ inch broad, texture herbaceous ; sori in 
continuous marginal lines. Hook. Syn. FiL p. 112. Bedd. F. S. I. 
t 25. 
Malabar Mountains, Travancore ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Mauritius, Hong-kong, and Malay Islands.) 
