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* * Veins conniventhj anastmnosing. 
GoNiOPTERis, Presl. Tent. Pterid. 181. 
(Glyphot£enium, J. Smith; — Polypodii sp. Auct. ; — Meniscii sp. Auct. ; — Gymnogrammatis sp. Aad. ; — Aspidii sp. Auci. ; 
Ct eiiopteridis sp. J. Smith; — Pliegopteridis sp. Auct.) 
Sori non-indusiate, globose; the receptacles medial or terminal. Veins pinnate, prominent, venules (the lower pair or more) 
connivently anastomosing at an acute angle, from the apex is produced an excurrent veinlet, which is either short and free or leno-thened 
to reach and unite with the next pair of the venules. 
Fronds herbaceous or sub-coriaceous, pinnatifid, pinnate, or pinnato-pinnatifid. Spore cases often echinate. Rhizome short 
decumbent. (Moore). 
This genus bears the same relation to Polypodium in Polypodieaj, as Nephrodium does to Lastrea in Aspidiea?. 
1. Goniopteris prolifera. (Presl). Caudex thickish, sub-repaud, stipites clustered, erect, varying in length, fronds glabrous or 
pilosulous, 1-2 feet and more long, sub-coriaceo\is pinnated, and at the apices and the axils of the pinnse repeatedly proliferous and widely 
extended, pinnae 3-6 inches long, sessile oblong-lanceolate acuminate, sometimes auricled at the base, venules 4 to 5 pairs or 8-10 in the 
larger pinnse connivent at an acute angle, from the apex of which are produced excurrent veinlets, which are generally all united, so as 
to form a continued spurious vein or costule ; these veinlets however are sometimes short and free, and sometimes some are altogether want- 
ing ; sori oval, rather than sub-rotund in the middle of the veinlet, sometimes near the point of junction, and then confluent and menisciod. 
Hooh. Sp. Fil. iv. 13 ; — Polypodium proliferum, Roxh. in Wall. Cat. n. 312, (not Kaulf.J ; — Meniscium, Sw. Syn. Fil, p. 19 and 207 ; — 
Hooh. 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t. 15 ; — Willd. Sp. PI. v, p. 135 ; — P. luxurians, Kzc. ; — Phegopteris, i/ei!;e« ;— Ampelopteris elegans, Kze. in 
Bot. Zeit. \i,p. 114 ; — A. firma, Kze. in Lin. xxiv, jij. 133. 
Hills near Kamptee and Jubbulpore, very common — Nilgiris, (Zenker). 
PLATE No. CLXXII. 
* » * Veins reticulated udth free included veinlets. 
Free veinlets, divaricate. 
Pleopeltis, Ilmnboldt and Bouplaud. Willd. Sp. PI. v, 211. (extens). 
(Atactosia, Blume ; — Anapeltis, J. Smith ; — Chryopteris, Link in 2Mrt ; — Microgramma, Presl. ; — Microsorium, Li)ik ; — 
Anaxetum, Schott; — Pleuridium, Presl.; — Phymatodes, Presl.; — Lepisorus, J. Smith; — Phyllitidis, J. Sm. ; — Symplecium, Kunze ; — 
Microterus, Presl. ; — Dryomenis, J. Sm.; — Colysidis sp., Presl.; — Mecosori sp., A7ofesc/i. /—Polypodii ap., Auct. ;—Tecta,vise sp., Cavanilles; 
— Drynarice sp., Auct. ;— Craspedaria sp., Auct. ; — Phebodii sp., Auct. ; — Dryostachyi sp., Auct. ; — Dipteridis sp., J. Sm. ; — Niphoboli sp., 
Auct. ; — Selliguea sp., Presl. ; — Marginarise sp., Bory. 
Sori non-indusiate, sometimes covered while young by peltate scales, rotundate or elliptic (sometimes with the receptacles 
difFuso-conflueiit in lines) superficial or immersed ; the receptacles compital, i. e., produced on the points whence several reticulated veins 
radiate, rarely medial. Veins pinnate or pinnato-furcate, from a central costa, parallel or flexuose, sometimes evanescent, the venules much 
branched, reticulated in (usually) several series of irregular or hexagonal areoles, within the ultimate of which are produced variously 
directed straight curved or hamate, often numerous, free sterile veinlets which are generally distinctly clavate at their apices. 
Fronds membranaceous, or more or less coriaceous, often opaque, simple pinnatifid or pinnate, sometimes furnished with scat- 
tered peltate scales. Sori serial or irregular, rhizome creeping, the fronds articulated. (Moore). 
1. Pleopeltis p>hijmatodes. (Linn). Caudex long, creeping, more or less clothed with dark-brown deciduous subulato-setaceous scales 
or bristles, in age the caudex is covered with a chalky-white coat, stipites 2-3 inches to 1 foot and more long, fronds very polymorphous, 
carnoso-coriaceous from a few inches to 2-3 feet long, often simple (undivided) and lanceolate, and then rarely exceeding 10 inches long, 
or trifid or tripartie, or more or less deeply pinnatifid, and then appearing to attain the largest size and a diameter of 10-12 inches 
deltoideo-ovate, the segments as many as 17-23 to 3-8 inches long, 1-U wide, lanceolate oblong or linear, acute or obtuse, the margin 
thickened entire, venation internal, generally obscure, sometimes when the frond is translucent the veins are apparent, but veniform soon 
diverging and anastomosing, and forming a series of large costular areoles with often lessor but unequally-sized ones, secondary veins 
