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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
152. ANGIOPTERIS, Baffin. 
Vernation fasciculate, erect, subarboreous ; each frond rising 
Genus 152. — Fertile pinnule, under side. 
No. 2. 
from between two fleshy 
stipuleeform appendages ; 
base of the stipes clavate, 
pseudo-articulated with the 
axis. Fronds 6-18feet high, 
bipinnate ; pinnules articu- 
lated with the rachis. Veins 
simple or forked, free. Re- 
ceptacles oblong, linear, sub- 
terminal. Sporangia 7-24, 
biserial, sessile, free, open- 
ing by a slit on the inner 
side. Sort oblong, late- 
rally contiguous, forming a 
broad, submarginal, trans- 
verse band. 
1. A. evecta, Hoffm. ; 
Schk. Fa. t. 150 ; 
Hook. Fil. Exot. 
t. 15. Polypodium 
evectum, Forst. — 
Islands of the Pa- 
cific Ocean and 
Ceylon. 
2. A. Teysmanniana, 
Ee Vriese, Mon. 
Maratt. t. 1-2 ; 
Lowe’s Ferns, 8, 
t. 76. — Java. 
3. A. Brongniartiana, De Vriese, Mon. Maratt. t. 3,/. 5. — 
Tahiti. 
4. A. pruinosa, Eunze, Fil. t. 91. — Java. 
5. A. hypoleuea, De Vriese. — Java. 
6. A. Miqueliana, Be Vriese. A. longifolia, Miq. et Hort . — 
Malayan Islands. 
