17 g FILICES. 



The usual form occurs very frequently in marshy grounds, near the 

 sea-coast. Fronds attaining the height of from 6 to 8 feet, and con- 

 stantly pinnate; the margin of the pinnae coarsely serrate; and pro- 

 liferous buds are borne on the rhachis, in the axils of the pinnae. 

 Stipes muricated. In var. (3. the fronds grow to a much larger size, 

 and have their pmnce again pinnate at the base, barely pmnatifid above 

 and coarsely serrate towards the point; the segments oblong, acute, 

 somewhat falcate. 



2. Callipteris Malabarica, /. Sm. 



Cattipteris Malabarica, J. Sm. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 179. 

 Asplenium amUguum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 81 & 274; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 343. 

 Diplazium Malabaricum, Blume, Enum. Plant. Jav. p. 193. 

 Digrammaria ambigua, Presl, ex Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 56, C. 



Hab. Feejee Islands. Luzon and Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



The rootstock frequently assumes an arborescent habit. In the 

 Luzon plant, the pinnules are not so deeply serrated as in the Feejee 

 and Mindanao forms; the two latter agree in outline, and both 

 possess a venation similar to the sectional figure in Hooker's Genera 

 Filicum. 



Tribe V. ASPIDIE M, J. Sm. 

 55. MAT ONI A, B.Br. 

 1. Matonia pectinata, B. Br. 



Matonia pectinata, Presl, Tent. Pterid. p. 62; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 43; J. Sm. in 

 Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 182. 



Hab. Mount Ophir, Peninsula of Malacca. 



