452 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
GENUS XC— SCHIZ^A. {Smith) 
{Schizo, I cut ; the cut fertile segments.) 
Capsules sessile in 2-4 rows which cover one side of close 
distichous spikes, which form separate fertile segments at the apex 
of the fronds ; veins free. 
I. ScHiz^A MALACCANA. {Baker.) Stipes dense, not distinguish- 
able from the frond, which is 4-8 inches long, weak, flexuose, 
subterete, channelled in front not more than ^ line thick, the barren 
and fertile ones similiar ; fertile 
segment erect, often bilateral, 
i inch deep wdth 3-6 slender 
spreading spikes on each side, 
the lowest 2-2 1- lines long. Baker, 
Syn. Fil. p. 428. Bedd. F. B. /. 
t- 255.' 
Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay Islands 
and Philippines.) 
2. SCHIZ^A DICHOTOMA. 
{Sw) Stipes 6-18 inches long, 
firm, erect, glossy, channelled on 
the face above ; fronds fan-lik^ in 
general outline, 6-9 inches each 
way, many times dichotomously 
forked, the ultimate divisions \-\ 
inch broad, with i fertile seg- 
ment to each, \-\ inch long, the 
rachis often curved with 4-10 close spreading spikes on each side. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 430. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 65. 
South India, on the Western mountains; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Tropical America and West Indies ; Australia, New 
Zealand, Polynesia, Philippines, and Mascareen Islands.) 
3. ScHiziEA DiGiTATA. {Sw) Fronds long, linear, grass-like , 
SCHIZ.-EA DIGITATA. {SlO.) 
