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26. IS-IPHOBOLUS, KomI/. ; J. 8m. 



Bhizome stort or elongated and suroialose. Fronds simple, 

 linear-lanceolate, oblong-elliptical, or obovate-subrotund, rarely 

 lobed, from less tban an inch to three or four feet long, thick 

 and fleshy or coriaceous, covered with sessUe or stipulate stellate 

 pubescence; the fertile usually more or less contracted and 



Genus 26. — Po. tion of rliizome,with a bar.-eiV frond. No. 3r 



lono-er than the sterile. Veins obscure, undefined,' or evident 

 and costteform ; venules compouad anastomosiug. Reaeptacles 

 punotiform, immersed, terminal or medial on simple or brachi- 

 ate free veinlets, or oompital. Bori round or oval, sub-trans- 

 verse multiserial between the primary veins, or irregular and 

 confluent, protruding through th^! donsS stellate pubssoenoe. 

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