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T_vpe. Matunia peclinala, R. Br. 



Ilkist. Hook, and Bauer Gen, Fil, t. 43 ; Moore Tnd. 

 Fil, p. 8G B. ; Hook. Syn. Fil, t. 1, fig. 8. 



Obs. — This genus is founded on a unique and rare Fern, 

 as yet only known to be a native of Mount Ophir, in the 

 peninsular of Malacca, On account of the sori being 

 furnished -svith a peltate indusium I originally placed it in 

 Aspidecc, but with wliich it has no other point of relation- 

 ship. With Gleiclieuia (with which I now associate it), it 

 not only agrees in habit but also in the character of the 

 sori, differing- only in the sori being compital and indusiate. 



Sp. M. pectinata, B. Br.; Wall. PI. As. Bar. Ic, t. 16. 



198. — STROMATorTEKis, Mett. (1801). 

 Gleichenia sp., Hook. Bijii. Fil., 1865. 



Caiole.r. slender, subfrutescent, branching, erect. Fromh 

 in terminal tufts on the branches, and distant lateral ones 

 below the tuft, linear, about 12 inches in length, pinnati- 

 fidly pinnate ; segments sub-rotund, about an inch in 

 length, numerous, contiguous, adnate to the rachis, cori- 

 aceous and concave on the under side. Veins pinnate, 2 to 

 3 venules on each side, the lower forked. Sori punctiform, 

 solitary on each segment near the base. Sporangia 3 to 6, 

 mixed with numerous pilose hairs. Jx-iis;; horizontal, broad. 



Obs. — This genus is founded on a remarkable Fern, u 

 native of New Caledonia, of which there ai-e specimens in 

 the Kew Herbarium, but those having arrived since the 

 failure of my sight I have consec|uently not been able to 

 examine them. It was first described as a new genus by 

 Mettenius in 1861. In the first part of the "Synopsis 

 Filicum," published in 1805, Sir William Hooker places it 

 in Gleichenia with which it agrees in the sori being formed 



