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receptacle. In the “Species Filicum” only one species is 
described, but according to my view, I consider there are 
two, natives of Malayan and other Eastern islands. 
Species. M. Javanica, R. Br. (v v.); M. asplenioides, 
J. Sm. (Spherostephanos J. Sm. in Hook. and Bauer Gen. Fil.) 
110.—FapxENn, Hook. (1842). 
Hook. Sp. Fil. 
Vernation fasciculate, acaulose, becoming  cespitose. 
Fronds simple, dimorphus, 5 to 6 inches long, sterile, lanceo- 
late, attenuated, decumbent, its apex proliferous; fertile 
fronds erect, linear spathulate, obtuse. Veins forked, venules 
acutely anastomosing, free next the margin ; the lower ex- 
. terior venule in the costal areoles free, its apex soriferous, 
Receptacle oblong. Indusiwm large, oblong reniform. Sori 
contiguous, transverse uniserial on each side of the 
costa. i 
Type. Fadyenia prolifera, Hook. 
Tllust. Hook. and Bauer, Gen. Fil, t. 53, B.; Hook. 
Fil. Exot., t. 36 ; Moore Ind. Fil., p. 68; J. Sm. Ferns, 
+ Brit. and For., fig. 69; Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 5, fig. 47. 
Ors.—This genus is founded on a remarkable Fern, a 
native of Jamaica and Cuba. In habit it does not well 
associate with any of the Aspidew group, except Polystichum 
rhizophyllum, with which it agrees in the sterile fronds, 
being decumbent and proliferous ; in that character as also 
- in the texture and colour of the fronds, and in the oblong, 
apparent double indusium, seems to indicate a greater 
. relationship with Antigramma in the tribe Aspleniec, rather 
than with any-of the genera of the present sequence. 
Sp. F. prolifera, Hook. (v v.), (Aspidium eni Hook. 
3 and Grev, Ic, Fil., t. 96). de 
