190 CHARACTERS OF TRIBES AND GENERA. 



I arrange the genera of the tribe under the following 

 heads : 



SERIES 1. Veins anastomosing. 



* Sori naked. 

 ** Sori indusiate. 



SERIES 2. Feins free. 

 * Sori indusiate. 

 ** Sori naked. 



SERIES 1. Veins anastomosing in various ways, 



* Sori naked. 



Sect. 1. DlCTYOPTERIDEJS. 



Veins angularly or compoundly anastomosing. Sori 

 pnnctiform, rarely oblong or linear. 



95. STEGNOGRAMME, Plume (1828). 



Gymnogramma, Hook. Sp. Fil. 



Vernation contiguous, sub-fasciculate, decumbent. Fronds 

 pinnate, 1 to 3 feet high, pilose ; pinnae lanceolate, 4 to 5 

 inches long, sub-pinnatifid. Veins costseform pinnate, 

 venules acutely anastomosing, sporangiferous nearly their 

 whole length, forming linear naked sori. Sporangia 

 pilose. 



Type. Stegnogramme aspidoides, Blume. 



Illust. Hook. Ic. PL, t. 950 ; Moore Ind. Fil., p. 50 B. ; 



Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 6, fig. 52 B. 



OBS. This genus consists of a single species, a native 

 of the East Indies and Java. In habit and general ap- 

 pearance it resembles several species of Goniopteris, 



