Cumingiane. N. O. Filices. 
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ASPLENIUM SCOLOPENDRIOIDES, J. Sm. 
Fronde simplici lanceolata subito caudato-acuminata integer- 
rima basi in stipitem perbrevem longe attenuata, soris 
linearibus, involucris subgeminatis superiore angustissimo 
reniformi, venis approximatis patentibus. 
Asplenium scolopendrioides, J. Sm. in Hook. Jaurn. of Bot. 3. 
p- 408. (name only ). 
Has. Leyte, in the Phillipine Islands, Cuming, n. 318. 
This is another Asplenium, nearly allied to our .A. loriforme 
t. 926, and A. Griffithianum, t. 928, remarkable for the sud- 
den, narrow, tail-like apex of the frond; and I find a pecu- 
ity also in the involucres, for on the inner or upper side, 
a nerve-like line will be seen to run parallel with and of the 
same length as the involucre, leaving a narrow area between 
it and the contracted involucre attached to the nerve. This 
line is caused by a slender membrane, evidently a portion e 
the involucre, remaining after the dehiscence. It gives the 
appearance of a double involucre, or of one opening in om 
middle ; and it was probably this which suggested the name 
of scolopendrioides to Mr. J. Smith. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the underside of a fertile frond :—mag- 
nified, 
