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TRIBE CYATHEINEZ. 
MATONIA. Br: Wall. Pl: Asiat. Rav. 1. 16. t. 16. 
(Prionopteris Wallich.) 
Gen. char. Sori indusiate globose, situated at the posterior base of the segments and consisting of 6-7 sessile spore cases, the 1 
receptacles compital, i. e. produced at the point of confluence of several (obscure) anastomosing venules. Z ndusium indistinctly 6-7 lobed 
umbonato-hemispherical attached by an axile petiole, round the base of which the spore cases are inserted, its lower margin much incurv- 
ed so as to enclose the sori in the manner of an inverted reflexed cup. Veins forked from a central costa, anastomosing where fertile — 
ot herwise free. 
Fronds fan-like conjugato-sub-pedately flabellate, the pinno produced on the anterior or upper side of the divergent branches 
rigid linear pinnatifid nearly to the costa glabrous often glaucous beneath one or two feet long, 1-14 foot wide, stipes slender 6 to 8 feet 
high, Rhizome creeping. 
A genus consisting of a single species. 
MATONIA PECTINATA R. Br. Hook sp. Fil, v. 285. Prionopteris Farquhariana. Wallach. 
The specimen figured is from Mount Ophir. | 
Hab. Summit of Mount Ophir (Malacca.) 
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