Ferns of British India and Ceylon 



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GENUS VI.— MATONIA. (Br.) 



(After Dr. Mat on, a London physician.) 



Receptacle of the sori expanded into a firm membranaceous, 

 umbrella-shaped obscurely six-lobed stipitate involucre, which covers 

 and encloses six large sessile capsules; veins forked free, except those 

 round the sori, which are closely reticulated. 



1. Matonia pectinata. (-Br.) 

 Rhizome creeping ; stipe slender, 

 6-8 feet high ; fronds fan-like, 

 conjugate- subpedately- flabellate, 

 the pinna? produced on the an- 

 terior or upper side of the diver- 

 gent branches, rigid-coriaceous, 

 linear, pinnatifid nearly to the 

 costa, glabrous, often glaucous 

 beneath, 1-2 feet long ; sori 

 situate at the posterior base of 

 the segments. Br. in Wall. PL 

 As. Bar. 1, /. 16. Hook. Syn. 

 Fil. p. 45. Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 186. 

 Malacca, on Mount Ophir ; 

 ore of the rarest and handsomest 

 of ferns. 



(Also in Borneo.) 





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MATONIA PECTINATA. {Br. 



TRIBE II.— DICKSONIEyE. 



Sori globose, on the back or apex of a vein ;. indusium inferior, 

 subglobose, free, sometimes covering the whole sorus, closed, or at 

 length bursting irregularly ; more frequently cup-shaped, entire, or 

 with two lips; caudex arborescent in Cibotium ; veins free, or 

 anastomosing. 



