Ferns of British Imdia and Ceylon. 457 
tion ; Ceylon, abundant ; North India, Bengal plains, rare ; Malay 
Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay Islands.) 
3. Lygodium flexuosum. (Sw.) Fronds glabrous or slightly 
hairy, pair of fronds stipitate-pinnate with the pinnules again pinnate 
or variously lobed, or subpalmate, all serrulate ; sori protruding from 
the margin ; texture subcoriaceous. S7a. Syn. Fil. 153. Bedd. F. 
LYGODIUM FLEXUOSUM. 
LYGODIUM POLYSTACIIYUM. 
S. I. t. 63. L. pinnatifidum, Sw. 153. L, longifolium. Wall. Cat, 
175- 
South India, on both sides of the Madras Presidency, common 
up to about 4,000 feet elevation; North India, plains, and up to 
5,000 feet on the Himalayas ; Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in the Malay Islands; Philippines; North Australia, 
and Tropical Africa.) 
4. Lygodium japonicum. {Sw^ As in flexuosum, only that 
