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>!<:. Fronds 2-pinnatifid , herbaceous. (8) Ch. fragilis. 



>t:.*. Fronds 3-pinnatifid, subcoriaceous. (9) Ch. hirta. 



. » (S) Ch. variant, Hie., Hk. Bk., Syu. Fil., 136; Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 II, lab. cm. A; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXXXIX; Ch. Belangeri, C. Chr., 

 Ind. Fil.; Pteris varians, Wall., List, No. 86. 



Stipes densely tufted, 5 — 15 c.M. long, dark-bown, polished, rather slender 

 and brittle, fibrillose below. Fronds 15—25 c.M. long, S^/j— S c.M. broad, 

 lanceolate, 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae in numerous pairs, the lower ones opposite, 

 often 3V2— 5 c.M. apart, Vj^—o'l^ c.M. long, + 2 c.M. broad, deltoid- 

 acuminate, cut down to the rachis in the lower part into oblong or linear, 

 oblong, entire or slightly toothed lobes. Texture herbaceous; rachis polished 

 like the stipe; both surfaces naked. Sori copious, continuous; indasium nar- 

 row, membranaceous. 

 Trap. Asia. 



* (6) Ch. teiiuifolia ««?., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 148; Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 II, tab. LXXXVII, C; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CLXXXVIII; Ch. hispidula, Kze, 

 Bot. Zeit., i848, 212; Trichomanes tenuifolium, Burm., (oldest name). 



Stipes not tufted, 10 — 20 c.M. long, wiry, flexuose, naked, dark-brown, 

 polished, slightly fibrillose towards the base. Fronds 10 — 20 c.M. long, 7^10 

 c.M. broad, deltoid to lanceolate, 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae in numerous, opposite, 

 erecto-patent pairs, the lowest 5 — 10 c.M. long, 2 — 5 c.M. broad, deltoid. 

 Pinnulae on the lower side the largest, the lowest ± Vj^ c.M. long, cut 

 down to the rachis into oblong, entire or sinuato-pinnalifid segments. Tex- 

 ture subcoriaceous; rachis polished like the stipe; both surfaces naked. Sori 

 roundish or subcontinuous ; indusium brownish, narrow, transversally oblong, 

 ± toothed. 



Trop. Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Tasmania, New Zealand. 



(7) Ch. miiltifida, ««?., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 138; Hk., Spec. Fil., 

 II, tab. C, B; Card. Ferns, tab. XXXIX. 



Stipes tufted, 7 — 25 c.M. long, strong, erect, dark-chestnut-brown, polished, 

 slightly scaly towards the base. Fronds 7 — 30 c.M. long, 6 — 20 c.M. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate or deltoid, 3 — 4-pinnatifid. Lower pinnulae opposite, remote, 

 erecto-patent, deltoid, 5 — 15 c.M. long. Ultimate divisions linear-oblong, deeply 

 lobed and the margin in the fertile fronds much recurved. Texture subco- 



