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.marginal, solitary at the tops of the sinuses of the ultimate segments, protected by 

 reflexed, membranaceous, roundish lobes, too small to cover them permanently. 



Rhizome whether or not creeping. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. 

 Fronds variously divided, herbaceous, more or less hairy; veins free. Hk. Bk., 

 Syn. Fil., lab. II, fig. 24; Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., V, fig. 147. 



Pantropical. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



$1. ASPIDOTIS. Rhizome not creeping; fronds small, tufted. (Not in Malaya). 

 §2. EUHYPOLEPIS. Rhizome wide-creeping; fronds large, scattered. 



§ 2. EUHYPOLEPIS. 



$. Fronds 2 — 3-ptnnate, under 50 c.M. long. (1) H. alpina. 

 S.S. Fronds at least 4-pinnatifid, more than 50 c.M. long. 



^. Surfaces naked except a few hairs on the midribs. (2) H. punctata. 



:^.:if. Surfaces sparingly glanduloso-pubescent. (5) H. tenuifolia. 



* (1) H. alpina, MU., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 149; Cheilanthes alpina, BL, 

 Enum., 138. 



Rhizome branched, densely clothed with reddish-brown, spreading, narrow 

 fibrils. Stipes 5 — 20 c.M. long, densely clothed with spreading hairs. Fronds 

 triangular-lanceolate, less than 50 c.M. long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad, 2 — 3-pinnate. 

 Ultimate segments oblong, blunt, not close, 5 — 10 m.M. long, S'/^ — 5 m.M. 

 broad at the base, adnate to the rachis, very slightly decurrent, often united 

 at the base by a narrow wing + */^ m.M. broad, the edges crenate or 

 toothed. Texture herbaceous, but firm; racbises and surfaces hairy. Sori 

 1 — 8 to each segment. 



Java. 



(2) H. punctata, Bedd.^ Handb. Ind. Ferns, SuppL, 19;(?Phegop- 

 teris punctata, Melt.; Dryopleris punctata, C. Chr., Ind. Fil.). 



Rhizome large, wide-creeping. Fronds 120 — 560 c.M. long, 4-pinnatifid; 

 racbises strigose. Pinnae + 60 c.M. long, more than 50 c.M. broad at the 



