﻿S8. TVOTHOL^^JEIVA., K. Brown. 



Sori roundish, oblong or linear-oblong, terminal on the veins, often coales- 

 cing afterwards into a continuous, subniarginal line, naked or partially covered 

 by the unaltered, often + recurved edge of the frond. Spores globoso-tetra- 

 hedral. 



Rhizome commonly short-creeping. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. 

 Fronds rather small, divided, glandular, hairy or scaly, often hardly different 

 from Cheilanthes; veins free. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., tab. VI, fig. 50; Diels, in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 145, B— E. {Nolhochlaena). 



Tropical and subtropical, but also found in cooler regions, generally in- 

 habiting dry climates. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



% l.EUNOTHOLAENA. Fronds not powdery beneath. 



§ 2. CINCINALIS. Fronds coated beneath with white or yellow powder. (Not 

 in Malaya). 



§ 1. EUNOTHOLAENA. 



5^. Under surface more or less hairy or fibrillose. (1) N. hirsuta. 



ijc.Hc. Under surface scaly. (2) N. distans. 



* (1) M. hirsuta, nesv., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 372; Cheilanthes hirsuta, 

 Mett., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 147; Pteris hirsuta, Poir., (oldest name); — var. 

 densa; N. densa, J. Sm., Copel., I'olypod. Philipp., 97; Kze, Farnkr., I, tab. 

 LXIV, fig. % a— c. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales dense, ferrugineous or brown, linear- 

 subulate. Stipes approximate, 3 — 15 c.M. long, erect, firm, dark-purplish- 

 brown, polished, more or less copiously clothed with whitish or ferrugineous, 

 small, spreading or crisped, subulate, fibrillose scales. Fronds 10 — 20 c.M. 

 long, 4 — 8 c.M. broad, ovate-elongate, 3-pinnatifid at the base. Pinnae several 

 on each side below the pinnatifid apex, + lanceolate, the lower ones rather 



