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nous, naked; colour above dull dark green, beneath pale, 
lurid. — Intermediate between radicansand hians, with the 
eutting of the former and the sori and involucres of the latter. 
Aspidium triangulum, Sw., var. latipinnum, 
'Jenman: pinnae in opposite pairs, large, 1! inch long, ?]; 
inch wide, ovate-rhomboid; teeth of the margins very shallow, 
appressed, spinulose, acute point mucronate; complete row 
of sori medial, 1 to 2 incomplete outer rows; apex of frond 
lobed or pinnatifid, rooting at the point. 
Aspidium caudatum, Jenman, n. sp. — Stipites 
5 to 8 inches long, scaly at the base, caespitose, spreading 
from a decumbent rootstock, which is °'s to Ya inch thick; 
fronds prostrate, simply pinnate, 10 to 15 inches long, 2 to 
3!/, inches wide, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, the base 
not reduced, tapering gradually upwards and attenuated, ter- 
minating in a 1 to 2 inches long, stiffish, tail with a scaly 
bud at its point, apparently fully pinnate throughout, but 
the upper third narrowly margined; pinnae numerous, sprea- 
ding horizontally, apart, but not distant, 1 to 1'/a imch long, 
3, to “inch wide, lower petiolulate, the inferior edge within 
obliquely cut away, curved outwards to the acute point, the 
upper sıde usually with a short rounded auricle at the base, 
inner edge parallel with the rachis; margin inciso-serrate or 
sometimes cut into shallow, roundish lobes, teeth obtuse, not 
spinulose, and the point not mucronate; texture coriaceous; 
surfaces naked, glabrous; veins close, 1 to 3 times forked 
(above the basal auricle); sori terminal on the anterior in- 
ferior veinlet, near to, or remote from, tlıe edge; involucre 
deeiduous; rachis stiffish, channelled, slightly scaly; colour 
on both sides greyish or pale green. 
Nephrodium firmum, Baker MSS, n. sp. — Rhi- 
zome freely creeping, hardly thicker than a quill, but beset 
with the persistent bases ot the old stipes, the advancing 
point clothed with narrow acuminate brown scales; stipites 
slender, erect, scattered, 8 to 12 inches long, glabrous, sub- 
polished, brown or nearly straw-coloured, channelled, having 
a few deciduous scales at the base; fronds 9 to 12 inches 
long, 4 to 6 inches wide, larger ones ovate- lanceolate; 
pinnae spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, pinna- 
tifid, or fully pinnate at the base, lowest 1 to 2 pairs little 
reduced and reflexed, central 2'/, to 3?/s inches long, Yz to 
* inch wide; pinnules slightly connected by their decurrent 
bases, but the basal pair not adnate and nearly free, all 
entire or subentire, the crenulate edge slightly reflexed, !, 
to !/, inch long, !/, to2 lines wide, apices bluntish or acute, 
basal pair not Gi only that on the inferior side) enlarged; 
texture firm, subcoriacous; surfaces naked; under side pale, 
