S6 7- GLEICHENIA. 



§2. EUGLEICHENiA. Fronds branched; ultimate segments roundish,! — 3m.M. 



long. Diels, I.e., fig. 189, B; Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, fig. 1068. 

 §3. MERTENSIA. Fronds branched; ultimate segments oblong to linear, 1 — 10 



C.M. long. Christ, I.e., fig. 1074, 1077, 1081, 1082. 



a. Dicranopteris. Fronds forked; forkings variously branched 

 again. 



b. Protogleiohenia. Fronds pinnate; pinnae variously branched 

 again. 



§ 2. EUGLEICHENIA. 



5(c. Leaflets slightly recurved at the edge. Rachises naked or clothed with chaffy 



pubescence. (1)- 6- circinata. 



jfc.*- Leaflets subhemispherical. Rachises scaly or woolly. (2). 6. vulcanica. 



♦ (1) C eircinttta, Sw. , Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., \l;G.semivestita,Lab., 

 4 Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. IT, A; G. microphylla, R. Br., Hk, I.e., 3. 



^ Stipes to ± 50 c.M. long, slender, wiry, flexuose, naked or ± villose. 



3 Fronds to ± 1 M. broad^ dichotomously branched, the branches and inter- 



|< nodations with numerous spreading pinnulae ± 5 c.M. long. Leaflets roundish, 



Q ±1 m.M. each way, the edges slightly recurved. Texture firm; under sur- 



g face glaucous; branches and rachises naked or more or less clothed jvith 



Q 



chaffy pubescence. Capsules 3^4, superficial. 



Malaya; Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia. 



* (2) Ct. vuleaniea, Bl., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 10; G. dicarpa, R. Br., 

 var. alpina, Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil,, 12; G. hecistophylla, A. Cum., Hk., Spec. 

 Fil., I, tab. II, B. 



Fronds 207^80 c.M. long, dichotomously branched, the branches and 

 internodations with spreading, linear pinnulae ± 3 c.M. long, l*/j — 3 m.M. 

 broad. Leaflets roundish, subhemispherical, + as long as broad, the edges 

 much recurved. Texture coriaceous; rachises covered with brown scales or 

 ferrugineous, furfuraceous tomentum. Capsules 2 — 5, concealed within the 

 almost slipper-shaped leaflets. 



Malaya. 



