694 CXLVII. FILICES. [Schizea 
S. riesen: Swartz; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 480 
ities 6 in. to above 1 ft. hig h, dichotomously divided into very 
numerous branches slightly flattened especially when barren, forming 
a flat corymbose top, all or most of them in some specimens fertile, 
in os all or DN of them barren. Soriferous pinnules of the fertile 
spike very narrow and closely Were cows as in ifida, but usually 
smaller, varying from 1 to nearly 3 lines long. —R. Br. Prod. 162; 
Hook. and Grev. ns Filie. t. 17; Bede. Ferns S. Ind. t. 65; F. 
Muell. Fragm. v. 113 ; Sieb. FI. Mixt. n. 297. 
N. tralia. arwin, Schultz, n. 208; Castlereagh River, Gulliver. 
oo ee seers Eaa Islands, P Brown ; Cape York, Daemel x 
En deavour River, i diana sess Wi Taylor r, G. Brown; Daintree River, Fitzalan ; 
Cape Sidmouth, co ring the ground in ‘lar, arge patches, W. Hill ; Rockingham Bay 
and d Rockhamp ton, “Dallechs y ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller 
. S. Wales Paramatta, Woolls, and Blue Mountains, Mrs. Calvert, each a 
deis specimen, 
Extends over tropical America and Asia, the Mascarene and Pacific Islands, to 
New Zealand. 
6. ANGIOPTERIS, Hoffm. 
Trunk erect, almost arborescent. Fronds large, Pi sh the st 
with zs poi persistent auricles at the base. Spore-cases globular, 
without any ring, opening inwards in 2 Berni praia in 2 rows in 
ae. sori, placed side a Ae e in a continuous row near the margin of 
the se coments, No indusi 
The genus is limited by Hooker and others to the single Australian pind 
ranging ore tropica — Eastern Asia to Japan -— extending on the one hand to 
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vecta, Hi offm. ; Hook. and Bak. Syn. Filic. 440. —Trunk 
road, e 12 to 15 ft. long, on a more or less deem stipes 
but otherwise quite glabrous, gree ne d ary pinnules 
or segments linear-oblong, 3 to 8 in. ion a uminate, crenate- 
serrate or rarely entire, Veins nearly parallel diverging | see the 
pa ida entire or forked. Spore-cases 4 to 6 pairs in each so ook. 
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Queensland, PERET Bay, W. Hill, Deiliehy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
7. MARATTIA, Sm. 
Rhizome large, tuberous. Fronds 
the stipes WAR adnate auricles at the base. Spore-cases completely 
united in 2 rows, in oblong boat-shaped sori, placed side by side m ? 
continuous row gous to the margin o of the pinnules or between the 
midrib and the margin, the spore-cases opening inwards in longitudi- 
large, twice or thrice pinnate, 
