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ped erect, 4-4 in. long, free from the pet iole, spe es connate 
t the base, adnate to the whole base of the Pen eptacle. Con- 
iptadls oblong-quadrate, 4-4 in. long, horizontal, glabrescent, 
unbordered ; basal teeth both distinct. Sori 10-12. 
Hab. geria, Canaries, Mascaren Isles, and spread through- 
out Tropical Africa. Very near M. minuta, get A ch it differs 
by its unbordered conceptacles and usually entire leaflets. M. 
cornuta A. a in Berl. Monatber. 1870, 728, cached by Welwitsch 
in Angola, is a form with short pedicels and petioles, crenulate 
leaflets and ‘the teeth of the base of the conceptacle very distinct, 
the ne one hooked. 
EGALENSIS A. Br. in shel . peckirer be -Siz 
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at the base, free from the peor adnate t to the wits base of the 
conceptacle. Coiideptasle early square, horizontal, silky, un- 
P steliged 1-12th in. long, porkietdntty silky; basal teeth minute. 
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sah, 2 ‘Sen negal. Intermediate between M. diffusa and egyptiaca. 
M. aneustiroxia R. Br. Prodr. Austr. 167.— Aquatic, aoe 
e : icels so ct, very short 
upper part of the base of the conceptacle. Conceptacle oblong, 
horizontal, in. lo ong, unbordered, ee, tomentose ; basal 
teeth obscure. ‘Sori ab 
Hab. North Aditealiie 
11. M. tenvurrotm Engelm.; A. Br. in Berl. Monatber. 1863, 
425, — center neatly or quite glabrous, with a slender wide- 
creeping rhiz Petiole 3-4 in.; leaflets oblanceolate, about 
Hab. Texas, Lindheimer, fase. iv. No. 745. M. minuta Fourn. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1880, p. 829, gathered in Mexico by 
Schaffner, is said to be closely allied to this species 
2. M. pupescens Tenore Prodr. Fl. Neap. Suppl. i. 70; A. Br. 
in tee . re wero Fabri Dunal in Ann. Se. Na t. ser. 2, 
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crowded in two regular imbricating rows on the rhizome, globose 
obovoid, 4 in. long, silky, unbordered, horizontal, with the pedicel 
cee to the upper part-of its ; basal teeth obscure. Sori 
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