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460 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
I. Angiopteris evecta. i^Hoffm) Caudex erect, often 2 feet 
thick, and as much or more in height ; fronds 6-20 feet long, pinnae 
1-3 feet long, spreading, the lowest the largest, rachis swollen at the 
base, pinnules 4-12 inches long, \-\\ inch broad, linear oblong, 
sessile or shortly stalked, the apex acuminate, the edge entire or toothed, 
particularly towards the apex, texture herbaceous to subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, shining ; veins subparallel ; sori of 8-15 capsules. Hoffni, 
Schk. Krypt. Getv. t. 151. Bedd. P. S. /. t. 78. 
Throughout the Indian region up to 7,000 feet elevation. 
(Also in Japan, Tropical Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, 
and Polynesia.) 
GENUS XCIV.— MARATTIA. (Sm) 
(After Maratti of Tuscany, a writer on Ferns.) 
Capsules sessile or stalked, 4-12 concrete in boat-shaped 
synangia, which consist of two opposite rows of capsules and open by 
slits down their inner faces, with or without an inferior involucre ; 
veins simple or forked, free ; fronds bi-tripinnate, large, springing from 
between two fleshy stipulseform appendages (which sometimes 
assume the character of abnormal fronds) ; pinnules articulate with 
the rachis. 
I. Marattia fraxinea. {Smith.) Stipes 1-2 feet long, i-if in. 
thick, smooth deciduously scaly or swollen in the lower part ; fronds 
up to 15 feet long, bipinnate, or sometimes tripinnate ; pinnae 1-2 
feet long, pinnules oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 inches long -|— i \ inches 
broad, the apex acuminate, the edge generally serrate, more rarely 
entire, the base cuneate, or slightly rounded, texture rather coria- 
ceous, glabrous, the rachis of pinnae sometimes slightly winged ; 
synangia submarginal, in close rows, the receptacle linear with 6-12 
capsules on each side, an obscure fimbriated inferior involucre often 
present. Hook. Syn. Fil. 440. Bedd. F. S. I.f. 79. 
South India, Western forests of the Madras Presidency, 4,000- 
6,000 feet elevation (not nearly so common as Angiopteris which it 
