TAB. CLXXXIX. 
ASPLENIUM CUNEATU M. 
FILICES.—GznATx. Br. PorvropracEm. Kaulf.  Finiczs vere. Willd., Spreng. 
GzN. Cnan. Z2$PLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. —Zyvoluerum lateraliter ortum 
ducens, margine superiore libero. 2. 
ASPLENIUM cuneatum ; frondibus oblongo-lanceolatis bipinnatis, pinnulis obovato-cuneatis obtusis 
rigidis striatis basi decurrentibus apice inzequaliter dentatis, superioribus confluentibus. 
Asplenium cuneatum. am. Encycl. v.2. 5.306. Swartz, Syn. Fl. p.84. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. 
p.944. Sprens. Syst. VP'eset. v. 4. p. 89. 
Ruta muraria maxima, foliis oblongis crenatis, Sloane, Jam. Hist. v. 1. p. 93. 1. 46. 4. 2. 
Has. In Indiis Occidentalibus; et in insula Mauritii, unde misit Prof. Bojer. 
 Jiadix dense ceespitosa, fibrosa. 
Stipites ceespitosi, digitales ad palmarem, erecti, semiteretes, atro-fusci, glabri, ad basin paleaceo-squamosi, paleis 
nigrescentibus. 
Frondes spithamzeze ad pedalem et ultra, circumscriptione ovato- seu oblongo-lanceolatze, bipinnate; pznais remo- 
tiusculis horizontalibus, oblongis, magis minusve attenuatis, rigidis, supra nitidis, subtus opacis atque pallidis; 
pinnulis obovato-cuneatis, obtusis, striatis, glabris, basi decurrentibus in rachidem alatam, apice inzequaliter 
dentatis, non raro sursum auriculatis, superioribus confluentibus.  Zachis universalis subpilosa, inferne 
nigrescens. : 
Sori lineares, elongati, 4—6 in singula pinnula. . 
Capsule longe pedicellatze, lato-annulatze. 
Semina ovalia, subangulata, flavo-fusca. 
Fig. 1. Pinnula fructifera cum rachidis portione. f. 2. Capsule. f. 3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
The specimen here figured, sent to us from the Mauritius by Professor Bojer, perhaps gives as 
fair an idea of the more usual state of 74splenium cuneatum as any we could have selected. But at 
the same time we must observe that it is subject to much variation in the size and the form of the 
pinnz and pinnule. "That which we have from Sieber as 4. cuneatum, (the No. 71 of his Synopsis 
F'ilicum, from the Mauritius also,) we are almost tempted to consider a distinct species; its lower 
pinnules are deeply bipartite, like the pinnze of 44. bipartitum of Willdenow. With this latter 
author we agree in considering the West Indian and Mauritius specimens to be identical. We 
possess it from the island of St. Vincent, gathered by the Rev. L. Guilding, and from Guiana by 
Mr. Parker. 
