IS. OI^CALPE, Blume. 



Sori globose, dorsal on a vein or veinlet, arising from a small, sea 

 ited receptacle. Indusium inferior, globose, sessile, at first entii-e 

 osing the whole sorus, at length bursting irregularly at the summit. 

 3 numerous, nearly sessile. 



Rhizome erect. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome. Fronds i 

 led; veins free. Sori usually 1 to each ultimate segment, on the lo 

 petal veinlet. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., tab. I, fig. 7; Diels, in Engl. & Pi 



Pfl.Fam. If, fig. 87, A— D. 



Tropical Asia. 



» D. aspidioides, ni., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 119; Bedd., Fen 

 lab. GCLVII; Bau. & Hk., Gen. Fil., tab. IC; D. pseudo-caenopteris, 



Zeit., i846, 457; — var. membranulosa, Christ. 

 Rhizome erect, covered v?ith desiccated stipes and brownish scales. S 

 -40 c.M. long, scaly. Fronds deltoid, 25—50 c.M. long, + as b 

 i-pinnate. Pinnae not quite opposite, deltoid-lanceolate, stalked, t( 



broad at the base. Ultimate segments oboyale, 5—8 m.M. long, '. 

 . broad, sessile, the base narrowed, + decurrent, the edge crenal 

 led throughout or at the apex only. Texture submembranaceous ; sur 

 ly naked, or sparsely chaffy on the veins; colour disposed to bla 

 rying. Sori solitary at the base of the ultimate segments ; indusium ; 

 War. membranulosa: Fronds smaller; pinnae close; segn 

 guous; indusium weak. 

 Trop. Asia. 



13. JJLE'J^A.ZIOT'^IS, Christensen. 



I See the Appendix. 



Sori dorsal, linear or oblong, running from near the cosla to the 

 a; induoium sauBago shap e d, fa s tened all rotind the r e coptacle, quite 

 ig tho sorus when young, rupturing irregularly when the spores mal 



