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Asplenium compressum, Swartz. 



Asplenium compressum, Swartz in Schrad. Journ., 1800, iL p. 52, et Synop. Fil., pp. 79 et 270; 



Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 121 ; Hook., Fil. Exot., t. 76; Hook, and Bak., Synop. Fil., p. 206; 



Melliss, St Hel., p. 352 ; Luerssen in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen., vii. p. 278 ; Kuhn, Fil. 



Afr., p. 99 ; Bory in Duperr. Voy. " Coquille," Bot. Crypt., p. 270. 

 Asplenium foecundum, Kunze in Linnsea, xx. pp. 231 et 305. 

 Darea fcecunda, Fee, Gen. Fil., p. 333. 



St Helena. — Indigenous. "Without locality — Burchell, 184; wet places on rocks in 

 the shaded woods of Diana's Peak — Hooker; also collected by Ilaugldon, Cuming, Lady 

 Dalhousie, and Morris, in 1883. 



"Abundant amongst the native vegetation on the high Central Ridge, srrowino- in 

 the wettest parts, at an altitude of 2000 feet and upwards." — Melliss. 



Also found in South Trinidad, according to Luerssen, in the place cited above, where 

 he states that there is not the slightest doubt of the correctness of his identification. 

 Through inadvertence Melliss copied under this species the distribution of some other, 

 extending to South Africa, Bourbon, Madagascar, and Mauritius. 



Asplenium erectum, Bory. 



Asplenium erectum, Bory in "Willd. Sp. PI., v. p. 328; Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 102; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. 



p. 126, t. 178; Melliss, St. HeL, p. 352; Hook., Fil. Exot., t. 72 (var. proliferum). 

 Asplenium lunulatum, Swartz, Synop. Fil., p. 80; Hook, and Bak., Synop. Fil., p. 202; Bory in 



Duperr. Voy. "Coquille," Bot. Crypt., p. 270. 

 Asplenium radicans, Pritchard, Cat. PL St Hel., p. 6, fide Hooker. 

 Asplenium reclinatum, Houlst. and Moore in Gard. Mag. Bot., ii. p. 260. 

 Asplenium tenellum, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 299; Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 117. 



St Helena. — Indigenous. Moist shady places on Diana's Peak, at 2000 feet — Hooker ; 

 near Carson's Gate — Burchell, 181 ; also collected by Haughton, Cuming, Lefroy, and 

 others, as well as by Morris, in 1883. 



Generally spread and common in the tropics, and extending into some extra-tropical 

 regions. It is one of the few indigenous plants of Ascension, and it also occurs in Tristan 

 da Cunha. 



Kuhn (Fil. Afr., p. 105) enumerates Asplenium lunulatum, Swartz, as distinct from 

 Asplenium erectum, Bory (1. c, p. 102), and he records both from St Helena, the former 

 in the collection of Durville. He also retains specific rank for Roxburgh's Asplenium 

 tenellum, citing Cuming, Melliss, and others as collectors of it. 



Asplenium (Diplazium) nigro-paleaceum, A. Braun. (Plate XXII.) 



Asplenium (Diplazium) niijro-paleaceum, A Braun in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol., 1861, App., p. 2; Baker 



in Hook, and Bak. Synop. Fil., p. 210. 

 Asplenium (Diplazium) arborescens, Mett. in Hook. Sp. Fil., iii. p. 256, pro parte ; et Fil. Hort. Lips., 



p. 78. 

 Diplazium nigro-paleaceum, Kunze in Linnaea, xxiv. p. 270 ; Melliss, St Hel., p. 351, cxcl. synon. 

 Diplazium arborescens, J. Sm., Cat. Fil. Hort. Kew. 



