6»8. IVOTHOLAJET^A., «. Ifrowm. 



Sori roundish, oblong or linear-oblong, terminal on the veins, often coales- 

 Ing afterwards into a continuous, subniarginal line, naked or partially covered 

 Y the unaltered, often + recurved edge of the frond. Spores globoso-letra- 

 edral. 



Rhizome commonly short-creeping. Stipes not articulate to the rhizome, 

 ronds rather small, divided, glandular, hairy or scaly, often hardly different 

 •om Cheilanthes; veins free. Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil, tab. VI, fig. 80; Diels, in 

 ngl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.Fam., I*, fig. 143, B— E. (Nolhochlaena). 



Tropical and subtropical, but also found in cooler regions, generally in- 

 abiting dry climates. 



Arrangement of the sections. 



1. EUNOTHOLAENA. JFronds not povydery beneath. 



2. CINCiNALIS. Fronds coated beneath with white or yellow powder. (Not 

 in Malaya). 



EUNOTHOLAENA. 



c. Under surface more or less hairy or fibrillose. (1) N. hirsuta. 



<.*. Under surface scaly. (2) N. distans. 



♦ (1) M. birsuta, ne»v., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 572; Cheilanthes hirsuta, 

 fett., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 147; Pteris hirsuta, Poir., (oldest name); — var. 

 ensa; N. densa, J. Sm., Copel., I'olypod. Philipp., 97; Kze, Farnkr., I, tah. 

 ,XIV, fig. 2, a— c. 



Rhizome short-creeping, the scales dense, ferrugineous or brown, linear- 

 ubulate. Stipes approximate, 3—15 c.M. long, erect, firm, dark-purplish- 

 rown, polished, more or less copiously clothed with whitish or ferrugineous, 

 mall, spreading or crisped, subulate, fibrillose scales. Fronds 10 — 20 c.M. 

 ong,' 3—8 c.M. broad, ovate-elongate, | 2-pinnate at the base. Pinnae several 

 n each side below the pinnatifid apex, ± lanceolate, the lower ones rather 



