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Gaud. L. obtusifolia, Presl. Blechnum (Lomaria) Bo- 
ryana, ScJilecJit. Adurnb. t. 19. — Bourbon, South Africa, 
Brazil, Tierra del Fuego. 
60. BRA1NEA, J. Sm. 
(Bowringia, Hook ., non Benth.) 
Vernation fasciculate, erect; corm arboreous, 3-4 feet high. 
Fronds pinnate, rarely sub-bipinnate, 1-2^ feet long; pinnae linear- 
lanceolate, 4-6 inches long, subsessile, base truncate above, arti- 
culated below, margin crenate- serrulate. Veins flabellately forked, 
free exteriorly ; the lower venules angularly anastomosing, forming 
a costal row of oblique, cuneiform areoles. Sporangia produced 
on the transverse anastomoses and bases of the free venules, con- 
stituting a broad, continuous or sub -interrupted, transverse, naked 
sorus. 
1. S. insignis, /. Sm. Cat. Fit. Hort. Kew. (1856.) Bowringia 
insignis, Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Miscell. v. 5. t. 2. — 
Hongkong. 
61. WOO BWARDIA, Sw. 
Vernation fasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnatifid, 4-6 
feet long. Veins reticulated ; the costal anastomoses transverse, 
elongated, and sporangiferous, constituting a costal row of oblong, 
linear, contiguous sori. Sporangia immersed. Indusium vaulted, 
revolute. 
1. W. radicans, Sw. ; ScJik. Fit. t. 112 ; Hook. Gen. Fit. t. 
17. Blechnum radicans, Linn. Woodwardia Stans, Sw. 
— South Europe, North India, Madeira, California. 
62. ANCHISTEA, Presl. 
(Woodwardise sp., Auct.) 
Vernation uniserial, sarmentum hypogseous. Fronds bipinna- 
tifid, 1-2 feet high. Veins flabellately forked, free exteriorly ; 
the lower venules transversely anastomosing and sporangiferous. 
