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cuneate thickened at the margin and there serrato-spines- 

 cent, the spinules appressed, veins prominent compact ex- 

 tending to the thickened margin ; fertile pinnfe numerous 

 but more apart 10-12 inches long j-^ an inch wide broad- 

 linear acuminate — StenochljEna, Pr. Ephn. Bot. p. 164. S. 

 scandens, /3, J. Sni. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ui. p. 401. 



Hah. Luzon, Cuming, n. 226. Solomon's Group, Pacific Islands, Milne, n. 

 r)18. — I cannot but agree with Presl in considering this a species quite distinct 

 from Steiiochl. scandens, to which Smith refers it ; for besides the broader pinnae, 

 especially of the fertile fronds, the short petioles are confluent with the rachis, 

 there is no trace of an articulation there, and no trace of glands. 



§ 5. Egenolfia. — Fronds dimorphous, pinnated, PinncB articulated on the 

 rachis. Veins free, bi-trifurcate, tiie superior veinlet terminating in a seta in 

 thesintis of the teeth or lobes of the margin. — Gen. Egenolfia, Schott. 



113. A. (Egenolfia) a/;j»enc?ic7^/a^«m, Willd. ; caudex creep- 

 ing, stipites 4-6 inches to a foot long in the fertile frond, 

 more or less scaly as is the rachis ; sterile fronds subcoriaceo- 

 membranaceous a span to li foot long oblong acuminate 

 pinnate, pinnae 1-2^ inches long 4-6 lines wide ol)long ob- 

 tuse crenato- or lobato-pinnatifid truncato-auriculate at the 

 base above, rachis winged, veins fascicled 2—3 times forked, 

 superior veinlet terminating in a marginal seta between the 

 lobes or crenatures ; fertile frond more or less contracted, 

 })inn£e much smaller 4 lines to 1^ inch long oblong very 

 o1)tuse cordate at the base, rarely subauriculute, entire orsub- 

 lobato-pinnatifid, or very slender and moniliformly pinnate. 

 — jrUld. Sp. PI. v. ;;. 114. Hook. Exot. FL ii. t. 108. Gym- 

 nogramme, Klfs. Acrost. Hamiltonianum, Wall. Cat. n. 29. 

 Egenolfia, Schott. Gen. Fil. cum Ic. Polyl)otrya marginata, 

 Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 18. t. 3. P. intermedia, /. Sia. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. p. 401. Fee, Acrost. p. 76. t. 40. /. 1 [tjotiug ste- 

 rile pinna scarcely crenate, setce very prominent). Acrost., 

 Bory, in Belany. Voy. Bot. p. 23. t. 3. A. viviparum, JJ'all. 

 Cat. n. 28 (variat piiniis fertiUbus omnibus vel quibusdam 

 tantum moniliformil)us. Wall.). Hook. Exot. Fil. t. 10/ 

 [fertile pinna moniliform). Polybotrya noditlora, Bory, in 

 Belann. Voy. Bot. p. 17- Fee, Acrost. p. 77- /• 38. /. 2. P. 

 rhizopliylla, Pr. Acrost. setosum, Wall. Cat. n. 30. Polyb. 

 serrulata, /. Sm. in Hook. .Journ. Bot. iii. p. 401 ? (Luzon, 

 Cuming, n. 269, of which I ajipear to have no specimen). 

 P. neglecta, Fee, Acrost. p. 76. t. 39. f. 2 (« common form of 

 P. appendiculata, and mued loith P. serrulata, /. Sni.). La- 

 caussadea montana, appendiculata, and rhizophylla, Gaudick, 



