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more or 



§ 10— Menisciece. 



(b.) Veins arcuately anastomosing, forming costal areoles; venules free, 



BRAINEA. J. Smith Catalogue of Kew. Ferns i 1856, v. 



(Bowringia, Hook, non Champion.) 



Gen. char. Sori non-indusiate, short, transverse, curved ; the receptacles seated on the arcuate costal veins, and often extending 

 less up the parallel oblique free venules ; at length irregularly confluent. Veins arcuately anastomosing at the base, forming costal 

 areoles ; venules simple or forked, parallel, connivent with the thickened margin; 



Fronds rigid coriaceous pinnate, becoming pinnato-pinnatifid. Rhizome arborescent 3-4 feet high. (Moore.) 



BRAINEA INSIGNIS. (Hook.) Caudex arborescent as thick as a man's arm clothed with shaggy dark-brown or ferruginous 

 long subulato-lanceolate scales, stipites stout, short, scarcely a span long : fronds not unlike a Lomaria firm coriaceous, bright-green, pin- 

 nated or below bipinnated, pinnae very close placed, horizontal 5-6 inches long, 4 lines broad, from a cordate base, linear-oblong, grad ually 

 and finely acummated, mxnutely serrated. -M;. S P . Fa. v. 162. Bowringia, Hooh. Kew, Gard. Misc. Y. p. 23 t, 2,-Lh, Fil. 

 Mixot. t, oo. 



The specimen figured is from Burmah, (the Pine Forests,) [Parish.] 



Hab. Hongkong, Eastern Bengal, Khasya (elevation 4,000 feet.), Burmah. 



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