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RENITIDEJF. 



Veins uniform reticulated, without free included veinlets. 



T^ENITIS. (Willdenow. Swartz Synops Fil. 3-24.) 



(Pteropsidis sp. Desvaux ;— Digramma Kunze. ; — Pteridis sp. Auct. ; — Antrophii Sp. Auct.) 



Gen. char. Sori non-indusiate, linear, continuous or interrupted, the receptacles sub marginal or medial superficial or somewhat 

 immersed. Veins uniform reticulated forming elongated longitudinal or oblique areoles, without included free veinlets. 



Fronds simple lobate or pinnate rigid, Rhizome creeping. (Moore.) 



i-^ENITIS BLECHNOIDES (Sw.) Caudex creeping nearly as thick as a writing-pen setose, stipites approximate 8-12 inches 

 long, thickened and setose at the base, fronds 1 inches to 1 foot and more long (rarely when young, yet soriferous, simple) coriaceo- 

 sub-membranaceous generally dimorphous pinnated, pinnas a span or more long, entire at the margin ; sterile fronds with 5-7 broad- 

 lanceolate suddenly acuminated pinnae ; fertile pinnae more numerous 15-16 linear-lanceolate gradually attenuated at the base, lower ones 

 sessile, sori continuous or interrupted, veins copiously anastomosing, areoles oblique oblong veinless.— Hook. Sp, Fil v. 187.— #w. Syn. 

 Fil. pp. 24 and 220.— Willd. Sp. PL v. p. l^.—BL Fil. Jav. v . 70 t. 28 f. 2 and t. 29.— Fee. Vittar. p. 26.— Tamitis pteroides, 

 Schh Fil. p. 21 t 6.—Spreng. Analect. iii. p. 374 t. 10/. 106.— Pteris blechnoides, Willd. Phytogr. p. 13 t. 9 /, 3.— Var. interrupta; 

 much smaller, sori often interrupted. T. interrupta, Wall. Cat. n. 142. — Hook and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 62. 



The specimen figured is from Burmah, (Piev. Parish.) 



Hab. Malay Peninsular and Archipelago, Penang, Luzon, Borneo, Mergui and Tavoy, Singapore. 



PLATE No. LIV, 



