II. J^L^TOTVlA-OElAJEl. 



Sori round, consisting of few (4— 14) decumbent capsules placed in a 

 whorl. Capsules as in Cyatheae. Receptacle columnar, bearing a superior, 

 umbrella-shaped, obscurely lobed indusium. 



Rhizome creeping, hairy. Fronds pedato-flabellate or sympodially 

 branched; veins free or those around the sori reticulate or forming costal 

 areolae. — Diels, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.fam., I*, fig. 182—183. 



Malayan. 



_ Wo. 0. 



See Supplement 1. 



e. ^ ftAirp< » > ! Pf 1 A-, M. Ji «! ■■ ■ ■' 



Characters of the family. 



;(c. Fronds pendulous, pinnate, not pedato-flabellate. 

 ifi.if.. Fronds erect, pedato-flabellate, not pinnate. 



(1) 8J/sar^entosa. 

 M. p/ectinata. 



(1) M. sarmeiitosa, Ale., Christ, Farnkn/^d. Erde, a56; Diets, in 

 Engl & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., fig. 183; Ann. of B(it, V, tab. xfv. 



Rhizome short, creeping, scaly. Stipesy^ender. Fronds pendulous, to 

 ± 1 M. long, not fan-shaped, pinnate or imgularly branched and the branches 

 pinnate again. Leaflets simple or ontre or more times forked, the ulitimate 

 segments linear, S — 13 c.M. long, 4^10 m.M. broad, the apex blunt, the edge 

 entire. Texture flaccido-coriaceojK; surfaces naked; colour pale; costae stout; 

 veins immersed, simple or fpreed. Sori terminal on short veinlets, placed ± 

 midway between the cosjare and the margin, consisting of ± 8— 10 sporangia. 



Borneo. 



* (2) M. p^ctiiiata, «. Br., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 355, fig. 1064 ; 

 Diels, in EngL & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 182 ; Bedd., Ferns Br. I., 

 II, tab. CJtf^XVI; Ban. & Hk., Gen. Fil., tab. XLIII. 



izome creeping, hairy. Stipes stout, erect, to + 2 M. long. Eronds 

 fan^aped, conjugato-pedatisect, 40—60 c.M. broad, forked. Forkings spread- 

 Ing or divaricating, e ach pinnate .with many.pinHulao. on tho ^ uippor sidftbolow 



