106 CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 
tiguous, the stipes raising from the apex of conical nodes. 
Fronds firm, coriaceous, the fertile partially contracted ; 
perfect ones deeply pinnatifid, in some states Song 
only or simple, 6 to 18 inches long. Primary veins 
indistinctly costsform. Venules compound, anastomosing. 
Receptacles transversely oval, compital, deeply impressed 
in a cavity, forming tubicles on the upper surface. Sori 
large, round, or oval, transverse uniserial. 
Type. Lecanopteris carnosa, Blume. 
Ilust. Hook. and Bauer, Gen. Fil, t. 90, B. (abnormal 
state) ; Moore Ind. Fil., p. 64, B. 
Ups This genus was originally founded on an abnormal : 
state of a very remarkable Fern, having fronds of different 
forms, one state having simple and sinuose fronds on the 
same plant, known as Polypodium sinuosum of Wallich. 
(Hook. Sp. Fil, t. 274); the more perfect state being a 
Luzon plant, which, in my “Enumeration of Philippine 
Island Ferns” (1841), I named Drynaria lomarioides, which 
has equal pinnatifid fronds, and as in Polypodium vulgare, — 
_ the pinns occasionally become laciniated, each lacinia - 
bearing a single sorus, and being concave, presents some 
similitude to the fructification of the Lichen called Lecanora 
(Nephroma) resupinata. Besides these characters, the very 
remarkable thick scaly rhizome marks it as a very peculiar 
Fern, worthy of being considered a distinct genus. | 
The different states have been found in Java Peninsula 
of Malacca, Borneo, Philippine and other eastern islands. 
Sp. L. carnosa, Bl. (Polypodium sinuosum, Wall.; Dry- ` 
naria lomarioides, J. Sm.) : 
