256 49. BLECHNUM. § 1. EXJBLECHNUM. 



(8) D. egregiuin, Copei. 



Specimens received from tke Philippines differ from Copeland's original 

 description in having the fronds much smaller, not at all pinnate, with 

 the lower pinnae not reduced to mere auricles, and the fertile pinnae 

 suddenly contracted at the base, positively Lomarioid. 



SO. S^OLEU-IA, Kaulfuss. 



(1) S. cyatlieoiiles. mf. 



Also in Malacca. 



SI- DOODtA., R. Brown. 



(1) D. dives, Kme. 



Central segments of barren fronds confluent or connected at the base, 

 generally contiguous or hardly dilated at the base, the 1 — 3 lower 

 segments whether or not reduced, occasionally free, adnate, sessile, 

 cordate, truncate, broadly cuneate, auriculate or hastate at the base; 

 segments of fertile fronds similar to those of barren fronds but generally 

 distant and suddenly much dilated on both sides at the base. 



Tiwor, Sumbawa^i Java; Ceylon. 



(2) 1) niedia, Je. Bt*. 



Like D, dives Kze but the central segments of barren fronds often 

 fre6, those of the fertile fronds always .free, not adnate with a dilated 

 base, similar to the occasionally free lower segments of D. dives Kze, 

 the lower segments growing gradually smaller- 

 Malayan (?) ; Australian. 



&2. TVOOD^WA^IirH-A^* Smith. 



§ 1. EUWOODWARDIA. 

 W. radically. «»»».,- Schk., Krypt. Gew., I, tab. 112, 



