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CATALOGUE OE TEENS. 
87. AETHROFTEEIS, J. Sm. 
(Polypodii sp., Forst. hTephrodii sp., F. Br. Aspidii sp., Willd.) 
Vernation articulate, distant ; rhizome slender, sarmentose, 
scandent ; node of articulation basal or more or less elevated on 
the stipes. Fronds pinnate, 1-1 ^ foot long.; pinnae entire, den- 
tate or pinnatifid. Veins forked or pinnate ; venules free, their 
apices clavate, the lower exterior one sporangiferous. Sori ter- 
minal, round. Indusium reniform, or absent. 
1. A. albo-punctafca, J. Sm. Aspidium albo-punctatum, 
Willd. Aspidium leucosticton, Kunze. Aspidium (Las- 
trea) Boutonianum, HooJc. Ic. FI. t. 981. — Bourbon 
( Willd .), Sierra Leone {Kunze). 
2. ? A. filipes, T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1855. p. 368. — Eew 
Zealand ? 
88. NEPHROLEFIS, Schott. 
(Aspidii sp. et Nephrodii sp., Auct. Lepidoneuron, Fee. 
Leptopleura, Fresl.) 
Vernation fasciculate, erect, stoloniferous. Fronds pinnate, 
linear, 1-6 feet long ; pinnae numerous, oblong or linear-lanceo- 
late and falcate, entire, dentate or deeply crenate, upper side of 
the base auriculated, sessile, articulated to the rachis. Veins 
forked ; venules free, clavate, the lower exterior one fertile. Sori 
terminal, round, submarginal, transverse uniserial. Indusium 
reniform, sometimes equal and conniving with the soriferous 
crenule, forming a marginal bilabiate cyst. 
1. N. pectinata, Schott. Aspidium pectinatum, Willd. Aspi- 
dium trapezoides, Schk. Fil. t. 29 B. Aspidium Schkuhrii, 
Binic. — Tropical America. 
2. W. undulata, J. Sm. Aspidium undulatum, Sw. — West 
Africa. 
3. tuberosa, Fresl. Aspidium tuberosum, Bory. Nephro- 
dium edule, I). Bon. — East Indies. 
4. Iff. exaltata, Schott , Gen. Fil. t. 3 ; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 35. 
