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ciduous with the receptacle. — Caudex " creeping.'^ Stipites 

 elongated. Fronds very firm and hard-coriaceous, ample, 

 fan-shaped, \-\\ foot wide, bipartite, each portion subscor- 

 poideo-pinnate. Pinnae allsecund, elongate, long-lanceolate, ter- 

 minal ones gradually smaller, glabrous, often glaucous beneath, 

 deeply pectinato-pinnatifid nearly to the stout costa, linear, 

 bluntly acuminate, the margin reflexed. CostvXQ strong. Veins 

 copious, very close-j)laced, elevated beneath, oblique, dichoto- 

 mous and free. 



1. M. pectinata, Br. in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. i. t. 16. 



Hab. Malacca, summit of Mount Ophir, Farrpxhar, Walker, w. 21, Sir Wm. 

 Norris, Griffith, Cuming, n. 383. — Of late years I have received copious speci- 

 mens of this magnificent and rare Fern, and am satisfied that the genus belongs 

 to the Cyatheaceous group. 



