208 FEENS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, 

 the fertUe contracted, pinnate or bipinnate ; pinnae articulated 

 with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein 

 continuous with, and dose to, the costa ; venules direct, their 

 apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinnlose 

 margin ; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- 

 ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, 

 continnous ; sporangia confluent. 



* Fertile fronds pinnate. 



1. S. heteromorpha, /. Sm. Stenochlaena heteromorpha, 



/. 8m. Gen. Fil. (1841). Lomaria filiformis, A. Ounn. ,- 

 Sooh. 8p. Fil. 3, 1. 149. Lomaria propinqua, A. Ov/nn. 

 —New Zealand. 



2. S. scandens, /. 8m. ; Soole. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Acro- 



stichum scandens, Lvrm. Onoclea scandens, lAnn. 

 Serb.; Sch'k.Fil.t.106. Lomaria scandens, PPiiJM. — 

 East Indies and Malayan Islands. 

 ** Fertile fronds hipinnate. 



3. S. Ueyeriana, J. 8m.; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 47, 48. Lo- 



maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriaua, 

 Fee. Stenochlaena tenuifolia, T.Moo^-e. ? Lomaria 

 tenuifolia, Desv. Stenochlaena scandens, Hort. Acro- 

 stichum Meyerianum, Sook. Gard. Fei-ns, t. 16. — 

 South Africa. 



109. SALPICHL-aSlfA, J. 8m. 

 Vernation subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnate, 



Genus 109— Portinn of baiTen an'l fertile pinna, naturt.) size. No. I. 



