^56 CHAEACTEES OP TRIBES AXD GENERA, 



rangia sessile fe-n', seated in concave segments fornied by 

 the revolute margin, globose, opening vertically on tlieir 

 exterior side. 



Type. Moliria thurifraga, Sw. 



lUust. Hook, and Bauer Gen. Fil., t. 104, B ; Moore Ind. 

 Fil., p. 93, A; J. Sm. Ferns, Brit, and For., fig. 14-5 ; 

 Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 8, fig. 66. 



Obs. — This genus is fiDunded on a solitary species, a 

 native of South Africa and Madagascar. 



S23. M. thurifraga. Sic. (r v.) (J/. acJiilhefoUa, Loive's New 

 Ferns, i. 42, B.) 



Obs. — This Fern much resembles some species of Cheilan- 

 tJuce, the concave segments containing the sporangia being 

 similar to ilyriojiteris. 



209.— Scmz.EA, Sm. (1793). 

 IIool: Syn. Fil 



Vernation fasciculate, erect, aoaulose, rarely distant. 

 Fi-onds linear, simple, stipitiform, simply forked or flabellate, 

 2 to 20 inches high. Feins forked, free ; fertile appendices 

 terminal, pinnate, cristajform ; margins of the segments 

 involute, each bearing on its inner side two compact rows 

 of sessile oval sporangia, attached by their base, and 

 opening vertically. 



Type. Schiscea pectinLita, Smith. 



Illust. Hook, and Bauer Gen. Fil., t. 19 ; Moore Ind. 

 Fil., p. 91 B. ; J. Sm. Ferns, Brit, and For., fig. 146 ; 

 Hook. Syn. Fil., t. 8, fig. 64. 



Obs. — This is a curious genus, differing from Anemia in 

 the sporangia being borne on crestlike terminal spikesj 

 which being resupinate give the appearance of the spo- 

 langia being produced on the upper surface. 



