﻿Sori round, consisting of few (4 — 10) decumbent capsules placed in a 

 whorl. Capsules as in Cyatheae. Receptacle columnar, bearing a superior, 

 umbrella-shaped, obscurely lobed indusium. 



Rhizome creeping. Fronds either erect and pedato-flabellate or pendulous 

 and pinnate, the pinnae simple or 1 — 2 X forked; veins free or those around 

 the sori reticulate. 



Malayan. 



No. 6. Mlatoiiia. 



Characters of the family. 



if.. Fronds pendulous, pinnate^ not pedato-flabellafe. (1) M. sarmentosa. 



^.>|<. Fronds erect, pedato-flabellate, not pinnate. (2) M. pectinata. 



(1) 11. sarmentosa, BU., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 556; Diels, in 

 Engl & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., fig. 185; Ann. of Bot., V, tab. XIV. 



Rhizome short, creeping, scaly. Stipes slender. Fronds pendulous, to 

 + 1 M. long, not fan-shaped, pinnate or irregularly branched and the branches 

 pinnate again. Leaflets simple or once or more times forked, the ulitimate 

 segments linear, 5 — 15 c.M. long, 4 — 10 m.M. broad, the apex blunt, the edge 

 entire. Texture flaccido-coriaceous ; surfaces naked ; colour pale ; costae stout ; 

 veins immersed, simple or forked. Sori terminal on short veinlets, placed + 

 midway between the costae and the margin, consisting of + 8 — 10 sporangia. 



Borneo. 



* (2) JM. pectinata, K. J»r., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 555, fig. 1064 ; 

 Diels, in Engl, k Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 182: Bedd., Ferns Br.I., 

 II, tab. CLXXXVI; Bau. k Hk., Gen. Fil., tab. XLIII. 



Rhizome creeping, hairy.* Stipes stout, erect, to + 2 M. long. Fronds 

 fan-shaped, conjugato-pedatisect, 40 — 60 c.M. broad, forked. Forkings spread- 

 ing or divaricating, each pinnate with many pinnulae on the upper side below 



