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5. Scales always with few or many branched hairs; branched, short-stal- 
ked hairs are found also on the rachis and, in some species, also on 
ribs and leaf-tissue. Veins free or anastomosing, goniopteroid or 
meniscioid. Lamina often proliferous. 
Subgenus 9. Goniopteris (Species 206—207). 
4. Sori confluent, exindusiate, all veins meniscioid. 
Subgenus 10. Meniscium (Species 268—280). 
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