722 79. STENOCHIAEKA. § 1. LOMABIOPSIS. 



cuneate, slightly unequal-sided, the edge shallowly crenate but more deep 

 towards the apex. Texture coriaceous; surfaces naked, upper dark-coloure 

 lower paler; costae prominent on hoth sides, with the upper side tomento 

 towards the base; veins prominent beneath, the higher ones simple or forke 

 the lower 2 X furcate or subpinnate, all united at the base by a promine 

 costal line. Fertile fronds not seen. — The description is taken from 

 specimen determined as Lomariopsis sorbifolia. Fee. 

 Amboyna (Teysmann). 



§ 2. TERATOPHYLLUM. 



(8) S. acnleata, M»e, Bot. Zeit., 484S, 142; S^ gracilis, Ks 

 Acroslichum aciilealum S p graoilo , Roc., Flor. Btz., I, B5 ; Teralophyllu 

 aculeatum. Melt., Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., IV, 296 ; Olfersia aculeata ^ gpavil i 

 Bl., Flor. Jav., Suppl., lab. XCV— XCVI; Davallk achilleaefolia, Wall., Chris 

 Farnkr. d. Erde, fig. 96, i; Hk., Spec. Fil., I, tab. LVI, D; Lomaria aculea 

 (& graeilis , Bl., (oldest namei); — var. inermis, Mett., 1. c, 297; Ann. Bt! 

 XII, tab. XIV— XV, fig. 25—28; Bedd., Ferns Br.I., II, tab. CCIX. 



Rhizome firm, wide-cKmbing, prickly, varying from slender to 5 m.J 

 thick. Fronds scattered, the barren ones dimorphous. Normal barren fronc 

 ^ stalked, 40 — 100 c.M. long, pinnate. Pinnae articulate, acute or acuminat 



■g entire, cuneate or rounded at the base, to 11 c.M. long, to Vl^ c.M. broai 



a Texture firm and green (thin and roddioh pupplioh in S. gpaoilioj Km) ; rach 



a and costae often minutely scaly; surfaces naked. Abnormal barren fronc 



^ variously divided, with very small, entire, crenate or incised, roundicby obloi 



® or linear ultimate segments, much smaller than the normal fronds- sum!-* 



proGood to tho oubotratum; texture membranaceous. Fertile fronds pinnat 

 the pinnae narrowly linear. — The forms of this species are often consider* 

 as forms of S. sorbifolia, J. Sm. or palustris, Bedd. 

 'War. inei'mis: Rhi a omo unarmed. 

 Trap. Asia. 



SO. FOLYBOTRYA, Mumb. 4* Bonph 



Sori at first terminal on the veins, but soon occupying + the who 

 under surface of the much contracted fertile segments. 



