540 39. CHEFLANTHES. § 3. EUCHEILAKTHES. 



riaceous; raehis dark-chestnut-brown, naked and polished; surfaces naked. 

 Sori small, roundish, slightly confluent; indusium roundish-obreniform. 

 Java; South: Africa, St. Helena. 



(8) Ch. fragilis; me., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil.^loS: Hk., Fil. Exot., tab. 

 XCVI; Bedd., Ferns Br.L, II, tab. CCXXIII. 



Stipes densely tufted, not more than 2 — 5 c.M. long, strong, tomentose 

 and fibrillose, erect. Fronds 15 — 30 c.M. long, 5 — 10 c.M. broad, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, 2-pinnatifid. Pinnae numerous, alternate, the lowest 2 — ^ c.M. apart, 

 2 — 5 c.M. long, 1 — 1 72 c M. broad, oblong-lanceolate, cut down to the raehis 

 below into numerous linear-oblong, blunt, sinuato-crenate lobes. Texture her- 

 baceous ; rachises bright-brown, tomentose, but the surfaces naked except on the 

 midribs beneath. Sori small, roundish or subcontinuous ; indusium pale-brown, 

 membranaceous. 



Malacca; Moulmein, Yunnan. 



(9) Ch. hirta, She., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 136; Hk., Spec. Fil., II, 

 tab. CI, B; Ch. parviloha, Sw., Syn., 128. 



Stipes tufted, 5 — 10 c.M. long, strong, erect, densely coated with spreading, 

 bright-reddish-brown, woolly hairs. Fronds 10 — 30 c.M. long, 5 — 15 c.M. 

 broad, ovate-lanceolate, 3-pinnatifid. Pinnae opposite, spreading from the main 

 raehis at right angles, lanceolate, Vj^ — 7'/j c.M. long, cut down to the raehis 

 into numerous oblong pinnulae, which are scarcely more than '/a c.M. long and 

 again inciso-pinnatifid. Texture subcoriaceous; raehis and both surfaces more 

 or less tomentose; margin of the segments much incui'ved. Sori copious. — 

 Ch. parviloha, Sw. has the raehis and surfaces less tomentose, the pinnae 

 shorter and the segments and apex slightly divided and convolute. 



Java; Reunion, South. Africa. 



40. FLA-GHOGYIttA., MeHenius. 



Sori oblong, on the somewhat thickened ends of the mostly branched veins, 

 soon becoming confluent and quite covering the space between the costae and 

 the edges of the narrowed segments at maturity. Sporangia long-stalked, with 

 an oblique, complete annulus. Indusium long, linear, continuous, consisting 

 of the more or less modified, reflexed or recurved margin of the pinnae. 



