TAB. CLXV. 
ASPLENIUM IMBRICATUM. 
FILICES.—GvnATze. Br.  PorvropiacEx. Kaulf.  Friricrs vere. Willd. 
GzN. Cuan. ZJ4SPLENIUM, Linn. Sor lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena late- 
raliter ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. Br. 
ASPLENIUM émbricatum ; fronde lineari-lanceolata bi- rarissime tri-pinnata, pinnis imbricatis, pin- 
nulis cuneatis bi-tridentatis, soris plerumque solitariis. 
Has. In fissuris rupium, locis umbrosis, prope verticem montis * Pichincha," Andium Peru- 
vianorum, alt. 15,500 ped. —.D. Prof. Gul. Jameson. 
Stipes brevis, vix biuncialis, teres, hinc sulcatus, glaber, nitidus, fusco-purpureus. 
Frons spithameea et ultra, circumscriptione lineari-lanceolata, bipinnata. Pinne breves, circumscriptione ovatze 
vel ovato-deltoidese, imbricatee; pinnulis paucis, 3—5, cuneatis, sessilibus, vix tres lineas longis, glabris, 
apice integris vel obtuse bi-tridentatis, nervis simplicibus vel di-trichotomis instructis; terminali majore; 
inferioribus non raro iterum divisis binis ternisve; hinc frons tripinnata. | 
Jiachis teres, nudus, atro-fuscus, nitidus. | 
Sorus oblongus, plerumque solitarius, in singula pinnula unicus. 
Involucrum membranaceum, pallide fuscum, subdiaphanum. 
Capsule globosse, annulatze, pedicellatae. 
Semina ovalia, intense fusca. 
Fig.1. Pinna cum soris. f.2. Capsule. £.3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
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This species has the habit of Cenopteris (Darea, Sm.), and the true fructification of Zsplenium. 
We do not find it to accord with any described species, nor does its discoverer appear to have found 
it elsewhere than at a height of between 15,000 and 16,000 feet, upon the summit of Pichincha, 
