Aspidium.) OXLVII. FILICES. 758 
and often aurieulate, 1 in. si and 3 to 4 lines broad in the larger 
fronds 4 in. long and 1 to lines broad in the smaller ones, with 
every intermediate we Veins diverging from the midrib once or 
twice forked. Sori in a regular row between the midrib and the 
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sometimes peltate.—JVephrolepis ramosa, T. Moore; Hook. an 
Syn. Filie. 301; MA obliteratum, R. Br. Prod. 148; Aspidium 
obliteratum, Spreng. Syst. iv. 99; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 135; Nephro- 
lepis obliter rata, Hook. Spec. "Filie iv. 154 ; Bedd. Ferns fe Ind. > zi, 
Polypodium ? ‘Beckions Hook. Spee. Filic. iv. 
Bo. Bail. Queensl. Ferns, 50 ; N. prs PALIN Tit l. e. BL "€ 
ea nsland. Endeavour nid Banks and Solander, A. Cunning VES Cape 
i ork Peninsula, Hahn’s eng as Tayl wee it ckingham Bay, Dallachy ; Dain- 
ree River, e salan; Mer e Cre ck Hartm 
Now N. Cap n, T'weed, Bellinger 'and Richmond Rivers, C. Moo 
ed aiid, A Stuart; Mamas River, Pe de ; Berrima and Illawarra, Macar sint; 
A Moore &nd. 
Spread over tropical Africa and Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
4 unitum, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 47.—Rhizome stout, ereeping. 
Fronds 1 to 2 ft. long on a stipes often as long, simply pinnate, pu- 
6 i 
sinus. Bori at the end nt the ve einlets forming usually a elose row g 
the margin of the lobes.  Indusium ae or al 
peltate, very small and soon disappearing.—F. Mue 
gae odium unitum, R. Br. Pr od. 148; N. propinquum, R. Br. Le: 
ook, Spec. Filie. iv. 79 
N. sore alia. Near Providence Hill, F. Mueller. 
Que nd. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Lizard Island, M‘ Gillivra, E 
York Peninsula N. Taylor ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Denison n, Fitzala 
ckhampton, Thozet ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller. 
ales. Port Jackson, A. Cunningham; New England C. Stuart ; 
Tweed Ri River, C. Moore; Richmond River, Mrs Hodgkinson ; also in Leichhardt’s 
w. Bais, Drummond, n. 400. 
idely spread over Sore . aie and Asia and closely allied to the common 
tropical American A. serr Brown restricted the n me of t s tum he the ege 
form to which belong a div oft the Queensland odas. io shed the mi 
or less pubescent one which is the most common, as ropa eme ose" 
apparently only on the single specimens of each in Herb. 
. A. pteroides, Swartz, Sy». Filie. 47. —Nearly allied t 
hn with the same pinnatifid pinne and venation. ug crue 
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