Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 455 
I. LyCxODIum ciRCiNATUM. (Sw.) Fully developed barren frond, 
bipartite into 2 palmate lobes or simply palmate, primary petiole so 
much reduced that the fork seems almost to spring from the main 
rachis, secondary petiole 1-2 inches long, firm, naked, pinnules 
digitate, with 5-6 long lanceolate lobes, reaching nearly down to the 
base, or once or even twice-forked, ultimate barren divisions 4-12 
inches long, inch broad, the fertile ones contracted sometimes 
so much so, that the lamina is nearly lost, the spikes 1-2 lines long, 
in close marginal rows, texture subcoriaceous, surfaces naked. Sw. 
Syn. Fil. 153. Thw. En. PL 
Zey. p. 379. pedatum, Sw. 
154. L. dichotomum, Bedd. 
F. S. I. 62. Wall. Cat. 176. 
Hook. Syn. Fil. 437. 
North India, Chittagong 
Hills; Ceylon, western, cen- 
tral, and southern provinces, 
up to 2,000 feet elevation ; 
Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay 
Islands ; Philippines ; Hong 
Kong and Chusan.) 
2. Lygodium micro- 
PHYLLUM. {R. Br.) Fronds 
simply pinnate, pinnules pe- 
tioled, 3-4 on each side of 
the zigzag rachis, with a terminal one which is more or less lobed, 
barren pinnse ovate-oblong, blunt, the margin subentire or rarely some- 
what lobed, the base rounded or cordate, fertile ones short, deltoid, 
with generally a very rounded apex, and a square base and lobed 
round the margin. R. Br. Frod. 162. W^all. Cat. 174. L. scan- 
dens, Bedd. F. S. I.t. 6i. 
South India, M^alabar and West Coast generally, very common 
in the plains, and also in the Wynad, up to about 3,000 feet eleva- 
LYGODIUM CIRCINATUM. [Sw.) 
