TAB. LXIX. 



ASPIDIUM 



CARYOTIDEUM. 



EILICES.— GYRATiE. Br. 



PoLYPODiACEiE. Kaulf. Filices verse. Willd., Spreng 



Gen. Char. ASPIDIUM, Br. HYPOPELTI 



Mich 



tundi, dorsales 

 liberum. Br. 



ASPIBII species, Sw 



Sori 



ro- 



Involucrum orbiculare, peltatum, stipitatum, in medio sori insertum, undiq 



Aspidium 



-yotideum; fronde pinnata glabra, pinnis subsessilibus rhombeo-lanceolat 



valde 



acuminatis subfalcatis ciliato-serratis,, infimis terminalique subtrilobis, intermediis basi supe- 



riore unidentato. 





Aspidium caryotideum. Wall. MSS. 



Hab. In India Orientali (Nepal?). Wallich. ' 



Caudex, ut videtur, repens, squamosus, hic illic radiculosus. 



Stipes pedalis et ultra, pallide fuscus, subteres, hinc sulcatus, basi parce paleaceo-squamosus, superne nudus 



glaber. 





Frons, stipitis longitudine, circumscriptione oblongo-ovata, pinnata, pinnis remotis patentibus, inferioribus opp 



sitis, reliquis alternis, sex pollicaribus, glabris, rhombeo-lanceolatis, inaequalibus, longe acuminatis costat 



- 



venis, sub lente 



reticulatis, marginibus tenuiter ciliato-serratis, basi cuneatis, brevissime 



oblique venosis, 







petiolatis ; infimis terminalique trilobis, lobis lateralibus brevioribus acuminatis, intermediis margine superiore 



versus basin dente unico instructo. 

 Sori in duas lineas, inter venas laterales dispositi, parvi, rotundati. 

 Involucrum exacte orbiculatum, primum orbiculatum, centro depressum, demum, marginibus recurvis, umbilicatum 



peltatum. 





Capsulce subsphsericae, annulatae, pedicellatae, pedicello longissimo, articulato. 

 Semina minuta, sphaerica, marginata, margine tuberculato, flavo-viridia. 



Fig. 1. Aspidium 



caryotideum, ^ diminutum. 



f. 2. Pinna : — magn. nat. f. 3. Portio frondis ut venae reticulatse 



videantur. f. 4. Sorus immaturus involucro tectus. f. 5. Sorus maturus, verticaliter sectus. f. 6. Capsulae. 

 f. 7. Semina. 



This is a very distinctly marked species of Aspidium, for which we are indebted to the Honour- 



able the East India Company 



The fronds, when seen through a good 



maghifying lens, present 



very beautiful appearance, from the nature of the reticulation. Each areola has a branch of a vein, 

 sometimes simple, sometimes forked, passing upwards, through the centre, but not reaching to the 



top. These veinlets, probably, though it is difficult to ascertain the fact, are what terminate in the 



son. 



