CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 
12 feet long, smooth, rarely pilose; pinnæ 5 to 10 EH 
in length, linear lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, generally 
opposite or nearly so, and articulate with the rachis. 
Veins one or more times forked or pinnate, the lower 
exterior venules free and soriferous, the others angularly - 
anastomosing. Receptacles punctiform, terminal, generally _ 
immersed. Sori transverse uniserial, furnished with indu- 
 Saform lacinate scales. 
— Type. Polypodium verrucosum, Wall. 
Illust.—Hook. and Bauer, Gen. Fil., t. 14. Hook. Gard; 
Ferns, t. 4l. Moore Ind. Fil, p. 59, figs. 1—4. J. 
Sm. Ferns Brit. and For, fig. 8. 
Oss.— The different aspect, and the pinne being articu- 
lated with the rachis, has induced me to separate the 
species of this genus from Goniophlebium. The species. 
are also distinct geographically, being entirely natives of 
the eastern tropics. 
* Fronds pinnatifid. 
s. e (Wall.), S. amena (Wall.). ` 
** Fronds pinnate. 
s. ips (Wall.), S. cuspidata (BL), (v v.), S. subauri- d 
culata (BL), (v v.). S. pallens (Bl), S. verrucosa (Wall.), 
11.—Pnzrzropmw, R. Br. (1838). 
ven sect. Phlebodium, R. Br. Polypodium Sp. 
Hook. BR Fil. 
