CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. fif 
farther consideration induces me to separate them. The 
chief distinction lies in the pinnæ being articulated with the 
. rachis, and in the margins not being notched as in 
Pleuridiwm; the same character also distinguishes it from 
Phymatodes. The species are natives of India, Nepaul, 
Sikkim, and Boutan. 
Species. A. venusta (Wall) (v v.); A. juglandifolium 
(Don) (v v.). 
Sect. 6.—PLEOPELTES. 
26. LOPHOLEPIS, J. Sm. (1841). 
Polypodium sp., auct. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. ; Oraspedaria in part, 
auci. 
Surculum slender. Fronds simple, entire, 1 to 4 inches 
in length, the fertile contracted, linear, squamose. Veins | 
. forked; venules anastomosing, the lower exterior branch 
free and soriferous. Receptacles punctiform, superficial. 
Sori transverse uniserial, each furnished with a dense tuft 
of elongated scales. 
. Type. Polypodium piloselloides, Linn. 
Illust. Hook. and Bauer, Gen. Fil., t. 51; J. Sm. Ferns, 
Brit, and For., fig. 10; Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 5, fig. 48, i. 
: Oss.—On account of the venation being similar to that 
.. of Goniophlebium, I originally characterised this as a section 
of that genus. By Presl and others, the species have been 
placed in different genera; and as their habit is entirely 
different from that of true Goniophlebiwn, Y deem it best 
to adopt Lopholepis as a distinct genus. ; 
-= Sp. L, piloselloides (Linn.) (v ei: L. ciliata ( Willd.) ; 
L. vaecinifolia (Lang et Fisch.) (v ei: var. albida (v v.), 
J. Sm. F. B. and F. | 
à fti. of the West Indies ond Tropical America. 
