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VI. Meniseium. Sori confluent, exindusiate. All veins meniscioid. Branched 
_ hairs none. . Species 233—245. 
. Lamina pinnate-bipinnate or decompound and then broadly ovate or deltoid in 
outline, entirely without true hairs (Eudryopteris and Stigmatopteris) or pubescent; 
all pinnate-bipinnatifid species with pubescence have at least the coste above 
rusty-tomentose with articulated hairs. Veins free, at least never goniopteroid. 
VII. Eudryopteris. True hairs absent, but rhizome, stipe and rachises more or 
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less clothed with scales, which are entire or fimbriate, never ciliated by 
hairs. Costule I-III or IV (corresponding to the degree of division) are 
decurrent. Sori with large, reniform, generally persistent indusia. Most 
species bipinnate-decompound, generally deltoid in outline, caladnomane: 4 in 
all divisions. Veins” generally forked. Species 246—26 
Stigmatopteris. True hairs absent, but rhizome and rachises often scaly 
with thin fimbriate, not ciliate scales. Lamina pinnate-bipinnatifid, rarely 
tripinnatifid, as a rule distinctly pellucido-punctate with immersed glands. 
Costule not decurrent, veins not reaching the margins, clavate, sometimes 
irregularly anastomosing. Sori exindusiate or (in the section Peltochlaena) 
covered by deciduous, large, peltate indusia. Apex of pinnz sharply serrate 
to the very point. Species 264—283. 
Ctenitis. Lamina bipinnatifid- -decompound. Cost and costulze above rusty- 
tomentose with short articulated hairs or antrorsely strigose or patently hairy 
with pluricellular hairs (so only in decompound species). Rhizome and rachises 
generally densely scaly, the scales most often clathrate and toothed or fim- 
briate, never ciliated. Decompound leaves catadromous throughout, never 
gemmiferous. Species: 284—349. 
Parapolystichum. Lamina decompound, catadromous in the first divisions, 
subanadromous in the ultimate pinnules, these being cuneate at the posterior 
base, the basal anterior segment or pinnula enlarged; rachis often gemmi- 
ferous. The deeply channelled coste. and costule above with articulated 
hairs or glabrous. Species 350—352. 
Polystichopeis. Lamina decompound, anadromous in all divisions, in most 
species coriaceous. Species 353—364. 
