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58. LOMAGRAMMA, /. 8m. (1841). 



Clietlolepton, Fee (1844) ; Neurocallis, Pr. and Moore ; Lepto- 

 chilus sp., Blume; Acrostichum sp., Hook. Sp. Fil. 



Vernation uniserial, sarmentum scandent. Fronds stipate, 

 pinnate, or bipinnate, 2 to 3 feet high, membraneous, 

 flaccid. PinncB numerous, lanceolate, 6 to 8 inches long, 

 base truncate, sessile, and articulate with the rachis. Veins 

 uniform, reticulate ; areoles oblong, hexagonoid. Fertile 

 segments contracted, wholly sporangiferous, or sometimes 

 the contraction only partial, and then the* sporangia 

 forming a broad marginal line ; both states furnished with 

 numerous peltate scales. 



Type. Leptochilus lomaroides, Bl. 



Illust. Hook, and Bauer, Gen. Fil., t. 98 ; Fee Acrost., 

 t. 51 ; Moore Ind. Fil., p. 18, A. 



OBS. This genus was originally founded on specimens 

 of a Fern from the Philippine Islands, which I afterwards 

 found had been previously described by Blume under the 

 name of Leptochilus lomaroides. In general habit it agrees 

 with Cyrtogonium as now restricted, but the numerous and 

 curious peltate scales that cover the sporangia marks it as 

 a distinct genus ; it was originally supposed by me that 

 the marginal sori was its normal character, but this is 

 now found to be due to the fertile pinnae being only par- 

 tially contracted. 



* Fronds pinnate. 



Sp. L. lomarioides (Bl.) (L. pteroides, J. Sm. 1841, 

 Acrost. Blumeanum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 5, p. 268.) 



** Fronds bipinnate. 

 L. polyphylla, Brack. Fil. U. S. E-xpl. Exp., p. 83, 1. 12, f. 3. 



