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 simiose 

 only or simple, 6 to 18 inches long. Primary veins 

 indistinctly costseform. Fenules 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. 



Illust. Hook, and Bauer, Gen. Fil.. t. 90, B. (abnormal 

 state) ; Moore Ind. Fil., p. 64, B. 



OBS. 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 Poly podium 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 pinnae occasionally become laciniated, each lacinia 

 bearing a single sorus, and being concave, presents some 

 similitude to the fructification of the Lichen called Lecanora 

 (NepJiroma) 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.) 



