48 5. CIBOTIUM. 



Caudex often, but not invariahly arborescent. Fronds compound; seg 

 ments linear or oblong; veins free. Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam. 

 IS fig. 78, E— F; Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, fig. 1001. 



Trop. Asia, China, Sandwich Islands, Centr. America. 



* C barn 111 etz, Jr. Sm. (not Link), Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 315 

 C. assamicum, Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. XXIX, B; C. glaucescens, Kze, Farnkr., 

 I, tab. XXXI; Dicksonia Baromets, Link, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 49. 



Caudex schort, strong. Stipes firm, the base densely covered with verj 

 long, yelow, hair-like scales. Fronds (wate-oblong, to 2 M. or more long, 

 Lower pinnae ovate-lanceolate, + 50 — 60 c.M. long. Pinnulae linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, cut nearly and sometimes quite down (in the lower part) to the 

 costa into oblong, narrow, subfalcate, approximate segments. Texture sub- 

 coriaceous; surfaces ± naked, shining, the under one glaucous, sometimes furfu- 

 raceous; veins commonly simple. Sori 2 — 12, rarely 1 to a segment; indu- 

 slum brownish, transversely oblong. 



Malaya; Assam, South. China. 



