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748 CXLVII. FITICES. [Asplenium 
late, mostly 1} to 2 in. long, deeply pinnatifid or pinnate ; segments 
varying from eee ete toothed and confluent to linear-cuneate 
distinct and deeply 2- to 4-lobed, the segments or lobes all coriaceous, 
denticulate at the end, striate with few diverging veins. Sori 
large.—Bedd. Ferns S. Didia; t. 144; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 131; A. 
premorsum, Swartz; R. Br. Prod. 150 
N. S. Wales. Grose River, R. arpi M Calvert. 
Victoria. Darlot's Creek, Grampians, 4 
WV. Australia. King Geo eee oand eds eight ing districts, Drummond, n. 
949, Preiss n. 1301, sae eel F. Mue 
Widely Vra ira valga America, tropical and southern Africa xui the Pacific 
Islands. The rn specimens have the segments of the pinnules narrow and dis- 
tinct, in those fone Ni S. Wales they are broader and more confluent, but all appear 
to me: to the African and American species 
Queensland. Endeavour River, 4. Cunningham; Rockingham Bay, W. Hill, 
Dall: at Damir River, Fitzalan ; ; Fitzroy Island, M*Gillirra y, Walter. 
n East tropical Asia, the Malayan Archipelago and South Nes I 
and very — to the widely spread tropical A. cuneatum, Lam., to which F. M ata ^d 
Fragm. v. 131, reduces it and from which it differs chiefly i in its much more compo 
fronds. 
T. IL. Darga. Sori oblong or linear, on a vein proceeding from 
arallel to 
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the midrib of the pinnæ as in Zuasplenium but on a brane p ards the 
the margin of its teeth or lobes with the indusium opening tow: 
margin 80 as to appear marginal. 
12. A. bulbiferum, Forst. ; Hook. Spec. Filie. iii. 196, Le. PI. t. 
423, Syn. Filic. 218. Rizomo thick. Fronds 1 to i ft. long, glabrous 
Primary pi y 3 y. E 
nnules lanceolate, mostly + t n. long, xad toothed lobe [ 
divided, with a single veinlet to eac h lobe or tooth; the whole frond as 
well as each pinna ending in a ong ite toothed or lobed - point. = 
, one to each lobe or tooth, xed to the central vein but the 
rather rigid prominent indusium Steam = towards the upper r margin 
so as to make the sorus appear marginal.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 146; 
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