42 6. ALSOPIIILA. 



pinnae 2 ft. and more 1., oblong-ovate, acuminate ; pinnl. sessile, 4-5 in. 1., to 

 nearly 1 in. w., deeply, near to the eostule, pinnatifid, linear-oblong, subfalcate, 

 entire, the fertile ones often more contracted with margins (when dry) revolute, 

 obscurely, crenate ; veins once or twice forked ; sori nearer the eostule than the 

 margin ; a minute shallow-lobed and cut membrane surrounds the base of the 

 receptacle after the capsules are fallen. Hk. Sp. I. p. 52. 18. B. Mett. in Miq. 

 1. p. 54 (Alsoph.). Chnoophora glauca, Bl. A. Brunoniana, Wall. Hk.Sp.l. 

 p. 63. 



Hab. Java and Malay Islands; Sylhet ; Cachar, near Assam, HJc. & Thorns. Some 

 of my specimens exhibit in a perfect state of the sori a thin membranous ? covering, 

 which breaks away from the top and gradually disappears. A. Brunoniana is probably 

 identical with this, but scarcely known, except from the caudex and withered fronds 

 alluded to in Sp. Fil. I. c. 



52. A. crinita, Hk. ; st. and main rachis stramineous, brown, hispido- 

 paleaceous and strongly muricate ; spines short, tipped with a black gland ; fr. 

 subcoriaceo-membranaceous ; rachises pilose above, beneath and on the costse 

 densely paleaceo-crinite ; scales sometimes short and minute, generally elongate 

 and adpressed ; prim, pinnae 2 ft. 1., 10 in. w. ; pinnl. oblong, acuminate, sessile, 

 pinnatifid nearly to the costuli ; lobes narrow-oblong, subobtuse, falcate, the 

 margins recurved, serrated ; costce and veins often pilose ; veins forked ; sori 

 covering the whole underside of the lobes, mixed with ciliated scales. Hk. Sp. 

 Fil. 1. p. 54, and Ic. PL t. 671. Bedd. Fil. 8. Ind. p. 20. t. 59. 



Hab. Ceylon, Nilghiris (Beddome) ; Java, De Vriese (excessively shaggy when young, 

 with very long, fulvous, paleaceous hairs). A very shaggy-looking species from the 

 copious hairs and scales. Mettenius unites it with A. tomentosa, a species of Blume ; 

 but if wbat I receive under that name be the true plant, it is a very different species, 

 the A. lepifera of J. Smith, our A. tomentosa,. 



53. A. tomentosa, Hk. ; scarcely anywhere hairy or villous ; st. and main 

 rachises palish brown, strongly muricated with short spines tipped with a black 

 gland ; fr. coriaceous, blackish-green above, beneath in all my specimens 

 copiously cobwebby with small white subtomentose ragged scales, which fill up 

 all the interstices of the copious sori, which together cover the whole surface of 

 the frond in all my specimens (the rest as in A. crinita}. Hk. Sp. 1. p. 55. 

 Mett. in Miq. Ann. Mm. Sot. 1. p. 53. Chnoophora, BL Als. lepifera, J. tim. & 

 Hk. Sp. 1. c.p. 54. 



Hab. Java; S, Comarines, Cuming ; Formosa, Wilford. 



54. A. caudata, J. Sm. ; unarmed ; fr. glabrous, firm, subcoriaceo-membrana- 

 ceous ; pinnl. sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, broadest at the base, the apex is sud- 

 denly contracted into a long, narrow-serrated, tail-like acumen ; the lobes oblong, 

 a little falcate, rather obtuse, serrated ; veins simple or forked ; bullate scales 

 none ; sori close to the eostule on the lower half of the lobes. Hk. Sp. 1. p. 52. 

 t. 20. B. 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming. A very dubious species, having some affinity with con- 

 taminans and, as J. Smith thinks, with lunulata. 



55. A. ramispina, Hk. ; st. subasperous, ebeneous (as well as the rachises and 

 costce}, a little paleaceous at the base and there bearing 3-5 subsecund, black 

 spines 1 J in. 1., with numerous sharp divaricating branches ; fr. subcoriaceo- 

 membranaceous, dark green above, paler beneath, where the costa is quite scurfy 

 with small brown bullato-paleaceous-sca&w; prim.pinnce 1 ft. and more 1., oblong, 

 pinnatifid at the apex ; pinnl. 2^-3 in. 1., ^ in. w., oblong, subpetiolate, obtusely 

 acuminate, pinnatifid f of the way to the costules ; lobes oval-oblong, obtuse, 

 serrated towards the apex ; veins mostly simple (in the fertile pinnules) ; sort 

 small, of few capsules, chiefly on the lower veins, and near the eostule, which is 

 very minutely bullato-squamulose ; recept. minute. 



