Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
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GENUS VL— MATONIA. {Br.) 
(After Dr. Maton, a London physician.) 
Receptacle of the sori expanded into a firm membranaceous, 
umbrella-shaped obscurely six-lobed stipitate involucre, which covers 
and encloses six large sessile capsules; veins forked free, except those 
round the sori, which are closely reticulated. 
I. Matonia pectinata. (Br.) 
Rhizome creeping; stipe slender, 
6-8 feet high ; fronds fan-like, 
conjugate- subpedately- flabellate, 
the pinnae produced on the an- 
terior or upper side of the diver- 
gent branches, rigid-coriaceous, 
linear, pinnatifid nearly to the 
costa, glabrous, often glaucous 
beneath, 1-2 feet long ; sori 
situate at the posterior base of 
the segments. Br. in Wall. PL 
As. Ear. i, /. 16. Hook. Syn. 
Fil. p. 45. Bedd. F. B. 1. 1 186. 
Malacca, on Mount Ophir ; 
ore of the rarest and handsomest 
of ferns. 
(Also in Borneo.) 
matonia pectinata. [Br.) 
TRIBE II.—DICKSONIEi^:. 
Sori globose, on the back or apex of a vein ; indusium inferior, 
subglobose, free, sometimes covering the whole sorus, closed, or at 
length bursting irregularly ; more frequently cup-shaped, entire, or 
with two lips ; caudex arborescent in Cibotium ; veins free, or 
anastomosing. 
