STENOCHLiRNA. 118 



GENUS XIL 



STENOCHLJENA. J. Smith. 



Strong-growing, creeping, or climbing Ferns from Africa, 

 having fronds of two forms, the fertile ones being contracted. 



The veins rising from an obscure transverse vein, continuous 

 with, and approximate with the costa; venules direct, their 

 apices clavate and united. Sori linear and continuous, and 

 becoming confluent. Hhizoma scaly and creeping. 



The name is derived from the Greek — a narrow cloak — on 

 account of the narrow membranous margin of the fertile pinnse. 



There are no British examples. 



