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ones always dorsal, mostly oblique to the costa and margin; 
the round and oblung ones dorsal, siibmarginal or on marginal 
outgrowtlis, soinetinies covered by the raised edges of the cavities 
or by long-stalked, i)eltate scales. No indusium. 
Rhizome mostly wide-creeping, rarely short, erect or tuberous. 
Stipes articulate to the rhizome. Fronds simple, pinnatifid or 
pinnate; surfaces naked, scaly or hairy, the hairs not stellately 
branched; veins aiiastomosing commonly ver.y copiously; areolae 
generally very irregular, sometimes more regular but then not 
as in Polypodium § § Goniophlebium, Campyloneuron or Phlebo- 
dium; free iiicluded veinlets generally present, mostly spreading 
in various directions, very rarely directed towards the costa or 
the margin. 
Arrangement of the sections and groups. (*) 
§ 1 . 
a. .Myriiieeo|iliila. 
*. Aspidopodiurn 
**. Lecanopteris. 
b. .\faelO!«ia. 
Lepisorus. 
* *. Pleuridium. 
c. Clir.ysopferi^. 
*. Phymatüdes. 
**. Phymatopsis. 
***. Drynariopsis. 
****, Aglaornorpha. 
§ 2. 
§ 1. a. .M.yriiieeo|)liila. 
*. Aspidopodiurn. 
(122) Fl. ^iiiiiosa (Wall.), Kcfifi,-, Polypodium sinuosum, 
Wall. 
(*) For the charaoters of the sections and groups see my handbook on „Malayan 
Ferns” pp. 068 — 569. 
