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FERNS : BEITISH AND FOREIGN. 



subauriculate on the upper margin. Sori uniserial, 

 antimarginal. Indusium suborbicular. Borneo. 



OBS. The affinity of this species is with 1ST. tuberosa ; but 

 seeing the two plants together, the difference is readily seen. 



79a. ISOLOMA, /. 8m. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect, stoloniferous. Fronds linear, 

 1-2 feet long, pinnate ; pinnae oblong, elliptical or lanceolate, 

 falcate, coriaceous, the base truncate and subauriculated ; 

 petiole short, articulated with the rachis. Veins forked ; sterile 



Genus 7Qa. Portion of sterile frond and a fertile pinna, natural size ; 

 ditto enlarged. No. 1. 



venules free, the fertile transversely combined at the margin, 

 forming a continuous receptacle. Indusium linear, interiorly 

 attached, plane, equal with and conniving with the margin, 

 forming with it a vertical exteriorly open groove, containing 

 the sporangia. 



1. I. lanuginosa, J. Sm. in Lond. Journ. Hot. 1, p. 420. 

 LindsEealanuginosa, Wall; Hook. 8p. Fil. 1, t. 69 B. 

 Singapore, Penang, New Guinea, and Seychelles 

 Islands. 



