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Fronds ample pinnate, or bi-pinnate, pinnules articulate. Spore-cases at first laterally connected, at length free. Rhizome 
fleshy, sub-globose, often becoming erect in age. (Moore). 
1. Angiopteris evecta (HofFm.) Stem forming an erect thick trunk, sometimes attaining 2 or 3 feet or more 'in height, fronds 
generally bi-pinnate (but the young sterile ones are often, and the fertile ones are sometimes, simply pinnate) very broad .spreading 
up to 12 or 15 feet long, glabrous, shining green, segments linear-oblong 3 to 8 inches long, abruptly acuminate, crenate-serrate 
or rarely entire. Stipes more or less downy. Veins simple, forked, nearly parallel. Sori usually consisting of 8 to 12 spore-cases,— 
Angiopterus crassipes. Wall. Cat. 187. 
[il/r. Moore enumerates numerous Indian species, hut they all I believe Lelong to one and the same plant.] 
Very common in most sub-alpine jungles on the western side of the presidency, up to 4,000 or 5,000 feet. 
PLATE No. LXXVIII. 
(§ 2.) MARRATTIE^. 
Maeattiea, Smith. Plant. Icon. Ined. t. — 46 — 48. 
(Myriotheca, Commerson ; — Celanthera, Thouin ; — Discostegia, Pm^. ; — J 
/So?-! dorsal, involucrate, sessile, oblong, horny, opaque, longitudinally divided into two opposite series of 3-11 conate spore- 
cases ; the valves convex outside, plane within, the spore-cases of each valve bursting on their inner face by a vertical cleft or slit, 
receptacles linear or globose, medial. Involucres linear-elliptic, oval or orbicular, scariose, fimbriate, persistent. Veins simple or 
forked from a central costa ] venules parallel, free dorsally soriferous near or at the margins. 
Fronds ample bi-tri-pinnate ; pinnules articulate. Rhizome large, globose or caudiciform, consisting of the thick squamse — 
form bases of the fronds. (Moore.) 
The Marattiem are distinguished from the Angio2)teridece hy having the s2)ore-cases consolidated into bi-valved sori, along 
tvhich they form two opposite lines ; while in the latter, tlie spore-cases, vjhich are also placed in two opposite lines, are distinct and 
separable. 
1. Marattia fraxinea. (Smith.) Rhizome large globose, Fronds bi-pinnate, (pinnules rarely again pinnate,) pinnules lanceolate, 
.•serrated, with a long terminal acumination, partial rachis often winged towards the apex, 
Si.^jtarah gluit— Bolamputty valley (Coimbatore hills,) 
PLATE No, LXXIX. 
TRIBE I. (§ IG.) ASPIDIE^. 
1, I?idusium remform, affixed at the sinus. 
* Veins reticulated. 
Sagenia, PresL Tent. Pferid. 86, 
(Polydictyum, Presl. ; — Microbrochis, PresL; — CardiochhBna, Fee; — Lobochlsena, ;— Phlebiogonium, Fee; — Aspidii, Sp, 
Auctorum ; — Nephrodii, Sp, Auct. ;— Polypodii, Sp. Auct. ; — Bathmii, Sp. Auct.) 
Sori indusiate, rotundate, superficial or immersed ; the receptacles terminal on free veinlets, or medial or compital on anas- 
tomosed veinlets. Indusium cordato-reniform affixed at the deep sinus. Veins pinnate from a central costa, prominent, venules arcuately 
and compoundly anastomosing in about two or three series of irregular unequal variously-shaped areoles, from the sides of which are 
often produced free included divaricate (sometimes fertile) veinlets. 
Fronds simply or often pedately pinnate or bi-tri-pinnate, herbaceous, usually ample. Rhizome short, erect or decumbent or 
somewhat creeping, (Moore,) 
1. Sagenia gigantea (Blume) Caudex stout ascending, Stipites 1-2 feet long, brown as well as the rachises generally glossy, 
fronds ample 1-2 or more feet long, sub-membranaceous, dark greenish-brown when dry, pinnate with 4-5 pair of pinn» below, bi-pinnate. 
pinuK numerous 4-5 pairs 6-12 inches and more long, broad-lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, the uppermost ones gradually smaller and 
