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with Lindsaya (Sehizoloma) lanceolata, but it is otherwise quite distinct. It 
is also a native of Banca, to the Eastward of Sumatra. 
44. Lindsaya (Synaphlebium) niteus, Bl. 
Bed. 1. t. 27. This is generally a bipinnated Fern, but it is found very often 
of a small size, with simply pinnate fronds, when it a good deal resembles L. cultrata 
of one form of No. 29. Davallia (Oda.) repens. 
It is a very variable and abundant fern, but is easily recognised in all its 
states by its netted veins. Found on the banks of streams at the side of the 
Labbugama Kraal, at Kottawa Forest near Gfalle, and common in the Central 
Province. 
45. Lindsaya (Sehizoloma) lanceolata, Lab. 
Bed. 1. t. 25 and 11. t._ 29. This is a common fern from the sea 
coast up to the Kandyan country, found in Cabook cuttings on road sides. 
In good sheltered soil it grows from 18 to 20 inches in height, with several 
pairs of opposite pinna, but in dry exposed places it has generally only one 
pair of pinna, and a long terminal one, occasionally it has only a single lobe, 
when Bed. 11. t. 29 agrees for it. Tne pinnated plant looks a good 
deal like Pteris cretica. — I feel quite sure that the following one though figured 
in two places by Becldome, and described as a distinct fern in the Synopsis 
Filicum, is a mere form of this variable fern. 
45/1. L. (Sehizoloma) keterophylla, Dry. 
Bed. 1. tt. 26 and 206 ? I found a single plant of this Fern near Lady 
Horton’s Walk, at Kandy, but it is t found in great, abundance in the Wanna- 
pottu Muckulane, at Pory, about thirteen miles from Colombo, where in the rich 
soil, and under the dense shade of the forest it grows to a height of 1^ to 2 
feet. — I have plants from this place with every conceivable mode of cutting from 
the simply pinnated L. (Sch.) lanceolata above, to bipinnated, and all sorts of 
shapes of pinnules from reniform, deltoid, lanceolate &c., A very common mode 
of cutting is to have one side of a long lanceolate pinnule quite entire, and the 
other side from the midrib' cut up into stalked lobes, but the specific name 
“ heteropmMa ” is truly applicable to this form of it. It is quite common to 
find fronds of these two supposed species growing on the same plant. On none 
of my specimens can I find all the veins free like those on Bed. 1. t. 206, 
but on several of the smaller pinnules they are so, and I therefore conclude 
they are the same plant. Baker thinks it very likely that the L. (Schiz.) Fraseri, 
Hk. of Queensland, is a small delicate form of this plant. — It is certainly only a 
form of No. 45. 
Tribe 6, Pterideje. 
46. Adiantum lunulatum, Burmann. 
Bed. 1. t. 1. A elelicate Fern, with tufted, wiry, naked, polished, dark 
chesnut -brown stipes, and half moon shaped alternate pinnae. Found at one 
time in great abundance growing in the crevices of the old walls in a Bud- 
hist enclosure near the -Maligawa Temple at Kandy, but now nearly entirely 
gqne, Sparingly on the sides of the cuttings along the roads to the Southward 
of the Lake at Kandy, but in great luxuriance and abundance about seven miles 
from Kandy, on the Harragam road. I have received specimens about two feet 
in length from this place collected by Major Hutchison. It grows freely in 
shade in Colombo, and cannot be confound, cl with any other Ceylon Fern. 
47. Adiantum caudatum, Linn. 
Bed. 1. t. 11. and If. tt. 17 and 19? One of our most common Ceylon 
Ferns, on road sides and in shaded places from the sea shore well up into 
the higher parts of the Kandyan country, with the fronds generally radiating 
from the centre, and lying flat on the ground, each frond gradually tapering 
to a long narrow end, which is generally terminated by a long naked wiry 
tail, the extreme end of which often takes root and produces young plants. 
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