240 Maxon .1 New Name for Kauljussia Blunic. 



The type of Kaulfussia Blume and therefore of Christensenia is Aspidium 

 aesculifolium with the following synonymy : 



Christensenia aesculifolia (Blnme). 



Aspidium aesculifolium Blume, Enum. PI. Jav. 2 : 143. 1828. 

 Kaulfussia aesculifolia Blume, Enum. PI. Jav. 2 : 200. 1828. 



The distribution of true C. aesculifolia outside of Java, the type region, 

 is more or less uncertain. De Vriese and Harting, in their Monographic 

 des Marattiacees (1853), recognize four species of Kaulfussia, viz. K. aescu 

 lifolia Blume, 1. c., from Java and Leyte ; K. assamica Griffith, Asiat. Re 

 searches 19 * : 108. pi. 19. 1836, from Assam ; K. Korthalsii de Vriese, Epim. 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Luge!. Bat. 1851, from Sumatra and Luzon; and K. Lob- 

 biana de Vriese, in de Vriese and Harting, Mon. Maratt. 14. 1853, from 

 Java; of which the last two are figured. We have not undertaken 

 to determine the status of the last three. Most writers have followed 

 Hooker and Baker in merging them with aesculifolia ; but it is by no means 

 unlikely that careful study will substantiate their claim to recognition, in 

 cidentally offering an explanation for the wide range of variation which 

 so-called aesculifolia has been supposed to have. 



