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Rhizome erect or climbing; the scales dense, adpressed, the base obovate, 

 peltate, dark-coloured, the margin brown, + ciliate when young, the apex 

 acuminate, erect or spreading, deciduous or persistent. Stipes scattered or 

 placed in opposite pairs or distant whorls, + 1—4 c.M. long, naked, articulate 

 between the apex and the base, often below the middle, the joint in every 

 case remote from the base of the lamina. Fronds 13 — 40 c.M. long, 1 — 4 c.M. 

 broad, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or subcaudate, narrowed gradually towards 

 both ends. Texture papyraceous to coriaceous; surfaces naked or partially 

 villous or pubescent on the costa and veins. Sori in 1 mostly irregular row 

 on each side near the costa; indusium oblique, entire or ciliate. 



War. mollis: Fronds more villous with soft, fine hairs. 



Malaya; Polynesia, South. America, West. Africa. 



* (S) O. luusifolia, Pr. (not Kze), Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 302; 0. ne- 

 riiformis, Bedd. (not Cav.), Ferns S.I., tab. XCI; Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. LVIII; 

 0. nenifolia, Pr. (not Cav.), Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 205, p. p. 



Shoots firm, creeping, scandent or intertwined, clothed with lanceolate- 

 subulate, ciliate, yellow scales, which are dark-coloured and peltate at the 

 base. Stipes scattered, generally single, rarely in whorls or in tufts, ± 

 2V2 — 5 c.M. long, naked, jointed close to the base. Fronds elongate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 20 — 50 c.M. long, to ± 5 c.M. broad. Texture thin-mem brana- 

 ceous to firm-papyraceous; surfaces nakied or hairy on the veins and midrib. 

 Sori in 1 irregular row on each side near the midrib. 



Malaya; Ceylon. 



* (6) O. IWallieliii, JP.-. (not Ilk.), Hk. Bk, Syn. Fil., 305; Bedd., 

 Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCLXV; Aspidium WalUchii, Hk., Exot. Flor.^ I, tab. V. 



Rhizome creeping, densely clothed with subulate, ferrugineous, often 

 reflexed scales. Stipes distant or sometimes more close, 1 — 8 c.M. long, 

 sometimes paleaceous, articulate at the base. Fronds 15 — 40 c.M. long, sub- 

 elliptical-oblong, the sides parallel, the base often obtuse or rounded, the apex 

 shortly and sharply acuminate. Texture soft, membranaceous; surfaces more 

 or less hairy. Sori compact, almost imbricate, in a continuous line on each 

 side and close to the costa; indusium reniform. — Costa naked or scaly. 



Malacca; North. India. 



* (7) ©. Cuiningil, jr. Sm., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 303; Bedd., Ferns 

 Br.I., I, tab. CXXXV; — var. Sibaldii, Hk. Bk , 1. c; 0. Sibaldii, Grev., Ann. 

 Nat. Hist., IV, 0^1. 



