TAB. CXIV 







ASPLENIUM RESECTUM. 



FILICES. — Gyrat\e. Br. 



Polypodiaceje. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd., Spreng 



Gen. Char. ASPLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena late- 



raliter ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. Br. 



Asplenium resectum ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis membranaceis oblongo-lanceolatis dentato-serratis, 



basi superiore truncatis, inferiore abscisso-cuneatis integerrimis, stipite rachique gracilibus 

 glabris nudis. 



Asplenium resectum. Smitk Icon. t. 72. Swartz. Syn. Fil. p. 80. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 322. 



Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 84. 

 Asplenium inaequilaterale. Willd. Sp.Pl.v.h. p. 322. 



Hab. In insula Borboniae. Commerson. Inter saxos ad marginem rivulorum, in sylvis mon- 

 tosis insulse Mauritii. Bojer. 



Caudex repens, squamosus, radiculas plures, fibrosas, fuscas, ramosas emittens. 



Stipes digitalis, erectus, gracilis, atro-purpureus, nitidus, hinc sulcatus, basi subsquamosus. 



Frons palmaris fere ad pedalem, circumscriptione lato-lanceolata, basi truncata, apice argute acuminata, pinnata, 



pinnis approximatis, plerumque alternis, subhorizontalibus, patentibus, tenuibus, membranaceis, oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, obtuse acuminatis, unciam ad duas uncias longis, inaequaliter dentato-serratis, costatis, furcato- 

 venosis, inaequilateralibus, basi superiore truncatis, inferiore abscisso-cuneatis, integerrimis. 



Sori in venis lateralibus siti, oblongo-lineares. 



Involucrum membranaceum, fuscum, costam versus dehiscens. 



Capsulce, annulo lato fere completo, cinctae, pedicellatae. 



Semina intense flavo-fusca, subrotunda, tuberculata. 



Fig. 1. Pinna fructificans. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 



Thi 



we believe 



is certainly the Aspl. resectum of Smith in the Icones above quoted ; but 

 must be confessed that it belongs to a group of the simply pinnated Asplenia, which are liable 



on which account we are 



much variation, and consequently to be determined with difficulty; 

 the more anxious to represent the present plant from perfect specimens, sent us by the excellent 

 Bojer, through the kindness of Charles Telfair, Esq., from the Mauritius. It is indeed very nearly 

 allied to the West Indian Aspl. abscissum, the pinnae being almost exactly the same in shape, but 

 that has the rachis winged. 



