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patent, sublanceolate, but distinctly unequal-sided. Texture herbaceous; sui 

 faces naked; no main veins; veins distinct, anastomosing irregularly; areolae 

 oblong, oblique, resembling those of Acrostichum. Sori linear, straight, curved 

 or flexuose, irregularly oblique, intermixed with shorter ones, which are 

 roundish or oblong; capsules intermixed with numerous, densely crowded, 

 jointed, linear paraphyses, which have the upper part narrowly ellipsoidal, 

 deciduous. 



Amboyna (Boerlage). 



* (14) S. pinnata, J. Sm., Lond. Journ. of Bot, IV, 16S, tab. VII— 

 VIII, tig. C; Gymnogramme pinnata, Hk., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 390; Hemionilis 

 elongata, Brack., VVilk.. Expl. Exp., XVI, tab. VIII. 



Stipes subtufted, 15 — 30 c.M. long, firm, erect, glossy. Fronds 30 c.M. 

 or more long, nearly as broad, pinnate. Pinnae erecto-patent, to 15 — 25 c.M. 

 long, 1 — 2^2 c.M. broad, narrowed gradually to both ends, cuneate at the 

 base, the lower ones stalked, simple or pinnate, the edges entire or nearly 

 so. Texture coriaceous; rachis and surfaces naked; areolae narrow, irregular, 

 usually in 2 rows between the costa and edge. Sori linear or oblong, irre- 

 gular, often confluent. 



East-Malayan Isles; Polynesia, Trop. Australia. 



er. HEIMEIOIVITIS, Idnn^. 



Sori linear, continuous along the veins, reticulate, without paraphyses. 

 No indusium. 



Rhizome short. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. Fronds simple or 

 lobed in malayan material, the fertile ones on the longest stipes: veins dis- 

 tinct, anastomosing copiously, bearing the sori throughout. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 

 tab. VI, fig. 59, a; Diels, in Engl, k Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., P, fig. 158, C—D. 



A small genus, almost confined to the tropics. 



•i*. Barren fronds lanceolate or cordate. 



+. Barren fronds lanceolate, repand. (1) H. gymnopteroidea. 



■+.-*-. Barren fronds cordate, entire or crenate. (2) H. arifolia. 



f .f. Barren fronds palmately 5-lobed. (3) H. palmata. 



