ovate

This arrangement of the scales gradually assumes a uniform appearance on the neck close to the head, where they are ovate.

The tail one-fourth the length of the body, covered with uniform ovate quadrangular scales.

Herbivorous; apod, or with very short legs: body ovate or obovate, slimy.

The general outline is oblong-ovate, the lowest pinnæ being scarcely, if at all, shorter than those in the middle of the frond.

At the base they are covered with large ovate-acuminate brown or sometimes dark and shining scales.