208 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, 

 the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate ; pinnse articulated 

 with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein 

 continuous with, and close to, the costa; venules direct, their 

 apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose 

 margin ; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- 

 ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, 

 continuous ; sporangia confluent. 



* Fertile fronds pinnate. 



1. S. scandens, J. 8m. ; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Acro- 



stichuin scandens, Linn. Onoclea scandens, Linn. 

 Serb. ; Sclik. Fil 1. 106. Lomaria scandens, Willd. 

 East Indies and Malayan Islands. 



** Fertile fronds lipinnate. 



2. S. Meyeriana, /. 8m. ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 47. 48. Lo- 



maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriana, 

 Fee. Stenochleena tenuifolia, T. Moore. ? Lomaria 

 tenuifolia, Desv. Stenochlaena scandens, Hort. Acro- 

 stichum Meyerianum, Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 16. 

 South Africa. 



109. SALPICHLJENA, /. 8m. 



Vernation subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnate, 



Genus 109. Portion of barren and fertile pinna, natural size. No. 1, 



