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fitratnineouB ; iiltimate pinnulea and lobes oblong-elliptical, 

 cuneiform, marginate, usually oblique. Veins pinnately forked, 

 radiating ; venxdes direct, apices of the sterile clavate, free, the 



Genus 94.— Portion of frond, natural size; two ditto, enlarged. No. 1. 



fertile 2-4 converging and transversely combined. by a thick 

 impressed^ sporangiferous marginal receptacle. Sori oblong, 

 rarely two on each lobe, Indumim formed of the reflexed 

 margin, thick, coriaceous. 



1. O. paUens, J. 8m. Gen. Fil. (1841) ; Eooh. 8p. Fil. 2, t. 77 ; 

 Eooh. et Bauer. Gen. Fil. t. 106 A. Adiantum 

 pallens, Sw. — Mauritius. 



95. ONYCmVUL, Kaulf. 



Vernation fasciculate and decumbent, or distant and sarmen- 

 tose. Fronds decompound multifid, 1-3 feet high, smooth ; 

 ■sterile segments cuneiform. Veims forted, free, their apices 

 clavate ; fertile segments linear, apiculate, veins simple, short, 



