Dzscr. From an underground, thick, oblique rizzome, the 
short, green, succulent sfipetes arise, m a tufted form, and are 
crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales. Fronds a foot or 
more long, erect, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, pinnated, the apex pinnatifid. Pinae approximate 
(except the lowest ones, which are small, deltoid, and reflected), 
spreading, sessile from a broad base auriculated on each side, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, beneath often dotted with exceed- 
ingly minute deciduous scales, costate; veins pinnated, forked, 
the apex clavate, terminating just within the margin. Sori 
broad-linear, in pairs. zvolucres of the same shape, in pairs, 
opening towards each other, ciliated at the margin, one of each 
pair arising from the superior side of a superior branch of a fork, 
the opposite one from the lower side of the branch of the fork 
next above it. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna, seen from beneath :—magnified. 2. Smaller 
portion of a fertile pinna :—more magnified. 
