758 CXLVII. FILICES. [Aspidium. 
bristle-like points. Veins forked, diverging from the midrib. Sori 
small, not numerous, loosely arranged in 2 rows. Indusium small, 
iar. reniform.— uell. Fragm. v. 134; Lastrea aristata, 
Moore ; Bail. Queensl. Ya. 49. 
^g rein Rockingham Bay, Daliachy yi ; Port Denison, Fitzala T 
ales. New En gland, C. Stuart (with fronds vut pena ; Hastings 
River, yon Tweed River, Guilfoyle ; Ghiwant a, C. Moo 
Spread over Eastern Asia from the Himalayas to Japan, in the Pacific Islands 
and South Africa 
1l. A. capense, Willd. ; Hook. and ir Syn. Filic. 254.—Rhizome 
creeping. Fronds from under 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, usually broad, pers. 
the pese and rhaebis more or less ici) mostly twice pinnate but t 
smaller ones occasionally simply pinnate. Pinne coriaceous, lanceola i. 
bbotiied c or pinnatifid, with reticulate veins concealed in the thick tissue. 
Sori often large, 1 to each tooth or lobe. Indusium peltate and rigid, 
but fallen away from old sori. a capense, Linn.; Aspidium 
coriaceum, Swartz; Hook. Spec. Fili 82. R. Br. Prod. 148; 
F. Muell. Fragm. v. 134; Polystichum —— Schott ; Hook. f. Fl. 
Tasm. ii. 148. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Woolls ; E River. 
Reel: Twofold Bay, F. Mu elie Lord Howe s Islan M, e. with 
a large variety with compound fron and a very ereta rhac 
pe toria. Mount Di Loci E Apollo Day, F. Muelle ; Cape Howe, 
alter. 
Tasmania. Derwent River, R. Brown; not uncommon in forests, etc., 
J. D. Hooker 
Generally ase over the tropical and southern extratropical regions of the 
globe. : 
12. A. apicale, Baker.—Fronds in general outline and division those 
ofthe larger broader specimens of ecompositum, twice or thrice 
pinnate with pinnatifid pinnules, but of a firmer texture. Segments 
obtusely toothed or lobed, with 1 or 2 sori on the longer teeth forming 
usually a marginal line round the upper part of the segment. Veins 
pinnate with free venules. ae orbicular-reniform, much e 
and more potent than in any variety o p decompositum, OF 
tenerum.—Nephrodiwn ils Bak. Syn. Filic. 
N. S. Wales. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 
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thick or longer and creeping. Fronds Vemm or ‘the rhachis eid , 
i in size an 
primary ner bescent, very variable in size a utline, the 
smaller ones ovate-lanceolate, 6 in. to near 1 ft. long, on a stipes o 
nearly as long, pinnate with nical pinuatifd pinne, the — pu 
twice as long, much broader in panty and thrice pinnate 
“and: - pinne ending in a narrow pinnatifid apex. Pinnules or 
