TAB. LXXIII. 



ASPLENIUM GILLIESIANUM. 



FILICES. — Gyrat^. Br. 



Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices verae. fVilld., Spreng 



Gen. Char. ASPLENIUM. Linn 



Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliter 



ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. 



Br. 



Asplenium Gilliesianum ; frondibus 



guste lanceolatis pinnatis, pinnis flabelliformibus antice 



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laciniatis dentatisque, rachi laevi apice non radicante. 

 Asplenium Gilliesii. Hook. in Ex. Flora,p.20$. (sub descr. Aspl.flabellifolii, sine Ic.) 



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Hab. In fissuris rupium, apud Ceno Grande Uspallata,, Andibus. D. Gillies. 



lla&ix parva, fibrosa, fibris subsimplicibus, tortuosis, filiformibus, magis minusve hirsutis. 



Stipes uncia ad duas uncias longus, gracilis, glaber, viridis, ad basin squamoso-hispidus. 



Frons angusto-lanceolata, pinnata, pinnis remotiusculis, alternis, flabelliformibus, tenuissime membranaceis, pallide 



viridibus, antice sublobatis, lobis subtribus, inciso-crenatis, pinnis ultimis sensim minoribus. Rachis laevis, 



apice nunquam radicante. 



Involucra linearia, membranacea, pallide fusca, fere albida. 



Capsula sphsericae, articulatae, pedicellatae. 



Semina ovalia, fusca. « 



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Fig. 1. Pinna, cum soris. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 





Discovered by our excellent friend Dr. Gillies on the eastern side of the Andes, looking towards 



;a. The species had been before noticed in Hookers Eocotic Flora under the description of 



Mendo 



Aspleniumflabellifolium, a native of New Holland, and which has many points in common with the 

 present. Aspl. Gilliesianum may, however, always be distinguished by its much smaller size, more 

 slender and delicate habit, never throwing out roots from the extremity of a leafless rachis. 



