Underwood : The genus Stenochlaena 39 



Acrostichum scandens Hook. Sp. Fil. 5: 249. 1864. — Syn. Fil. 



412. 1868. 



tariopsis palustris Mett. Ann 



1869. 



Icon. : Rheede, Hort. Malab. 12 : //. 35. 1703 ; Burmann, 



pi 



pi 



1750; Schkuhr, Crypt. Gewachse />/. io6, ioj ; Hook 

 Gen. Fil. //. ioj B ; Fee, Mem. Foug. 5 : pi. 5 A.f 2 ; 

 Ferns Southern India pi. 201. 



Range : India from Punjab ?, Sikkim and Ceylon, 1 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines, to Queensland, ] 



Malacca 



and Tonga Islands. 



§ 2. CAFRARIA Presl. 



This group was set apart by Presl as a section in 1851.* It 

 agrees with EttstenocJilaena in venation and in the marginal spines 

 of the pinnae, but differs in the bipinnate sporophyl, a character 

 wholly insufficient to separate it as a genus. Fee founded the 

 genus Lomariobotrys on the same group in 1852. 



A single species : 



4. Stenochlaena tenuifolia (Desv.) 



Lomaria tenuifolia Desv. Berl. Mag. 5 : 326. 181 1. (Type from 



Madagascar.) 



Lomaria Meyeriana Kunze, Linnaea 10 : 509. 1836. (Type from 

 Natal?, "inter Omtendo et Omsamculo/' Drege.) 



Stenocldaena Meyeriana Presl, Epim. Bot. 166. 1851. 



Lomariobotjys Meyeriana Fee, Mem. Foug. 5 : 46. //. 5 A. 1852. 



Lomariobotrys tenuifolia Fee, Mem. Foug. 5 : 46. 185 



Acrostichum Meyerianum Hook. Garden Ferns //. 16. 1862. — 



Sp. Fil. 5 : 250. 1864. 



Acrostichum tenuifolium Baker, Syn. Fil. 412. 1868. 



Icon. : Hooker, loc. cit. ; Fee, loc. cit. 



Range : Africa from the Cape of Good Hope and Natal to 



Nossibe, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Comoro Islands. 



There are specimens in the Kew herbarium in which there are 



some simply pinnate sporophyls as well as the normally bipinnate 



ones, said to have grown on the same plant. 



* In publishing Lomariobotrys ■, Fee adds the date 1851, citing Cafraria Presl, 

 Epim. Bot. 166. This seems to fix the date of the Epim. Bot. as 1851 rather than 1852 

 (cf. Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 590, note). This also enables us to cite 1852 instead of 

 *' 1850-5 2" for Fee's fifth Memoir. 



