Matonia
(named after Dr. Maton, Vice-president of the Linnaean Society). ORD. Filices. A monotypic genus. The species is a rare and handsome stove fern. For culture,see Ferns.
M. pectinata (comb-like). fronds ample, fan-shaped, 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. wide, hard-coriaceous, each portion sub-scorpioideo-pinnate on the upper side, pinnules consequently all secund pectinato-pinnatifid. Receptacle of the sori expanded into a firm, membranaceous, umbrella-shaped, obscurely six-lobed, stipitate involucre, which covers and incloses six large sessile capsules. Borneo, &c., 1839.