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(a) fronds wholly fertile. 
* Veins free. 
LOMARIOPSIS, Fée, Hist, Acrost, 10. 
(Acrostichi Sp. Auct. ; Lomariez Sp. Auct. ; Stenochlenz Sp. J. Sm. ; Olfersix Sp. Pres. د‎ Onoclex Sp. duct. ; Anemia Sp. 4 
Sprengel; Osmundæ Sp. Bory.) 
Gen. char. Sori superficial, non-indusiate, the receptacles occupying the under surface of the contracted fertile fronds. Veins 3 
simple or parallelo-furcate from a central costa. Venules free. 
Fronds dimorphous, pinnate, the fertile contracted. Rhizome scandent. This genus differs from Stenochlæna, with which it 1 
agrees in habit, in the absence of the costal areole, and of the gland on the margin of the pinnz near the base. (Moore) . 
LOMARIOPSIS SORBIFOLIA (Linn.) Caudex long thick scandent often angled by the decurrent bases of the stipites clothed 
large lanceolato-subulate ciliated generally pale fuscous scales, stipites varying in length 3 inches to a foot long more sparingly paleaceous, | 
fronds subcoriaceous 1-2 feet long lanceolate or oblong pinnated, pinne articulated 6-30; sterile pinnæ from 4-7 inches long and from 
4-2 inches wide lanceolate or oblong acuminate sometimes broader upwards or sometimes caudato-apiculate subpetiolate entire or more 
or less serrated or dentate at the margins, rachis winged towards the apex and even for its whole length in the young specimens, veins 
manifest extending to the margin more or less elevated ; fertile pinnæ smaller and narrower, veins terminating within the margin. Hook. Sp. 
Fil. v. 242 ; Linn Sp. Pl. p. 1526 ; Lomaria longifolia and sorbifolia Kfs. ; Stenochlæna longifolia J. Sm. ; Acrostichum lomarioides 
Bory in Belang. Voy. p. 21 t. 2. (pinnules obtuse) ; Lomariopsis Boryana Fée Acrost. p. 68 ; Lomaria integrifolia Klfs. in Sieb. Syn. Fil. 
n. 23. Lomariopsis cuspidata. et variabilis Fée Acrost. ; Lomaria fraxinea Willd ; Lomariopsis ludens. Fee Acrost. (abnormal form) 
Lomaria recurvata et leptocarpa, Fée Acrost. ; Stenochlæna oleandrifolia. Brack Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 75, Lomariopsis Cochinchin- 
ensis et Smithii Fée Acrost ; L. Wrightii Mett.—Acrost. Yapurense Mart. Ic. Pl. Crypt. Bras. p. 36. Hook. Gard. Ferns t. 57, et 
phlebodes Kze on Linnea ix, p. 33. Lomariopsis Prieuriana et erythrodes et elongata Fée Acrost. x 
A genus of probably only one species but with numerous synonyms. 
The Specimen figured is from Si ngapore. 
Hab. Singapore, Cochin China, Bourbon, Mauritius, Madagascar, Tropical America, West Indian Islands, Cuba, Columbia, 
Guiana, Peru, &c., Tropical Africa, Phili ppine Islands, Fiji Islands, Samoa, Luzon. 
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