216 38. ASPLENIUM, EUASPLENIUM. 



flabellate segm., 1-2 in. br., sharply toothed on the outer edge ; texture coriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, grey, naked ; veins subflabellate ; sori oblong, usually one only to a 

 segm. A. scandicinum, Hlc. Sp. 3.p. 183. t. 204, non Kaulf. 



Hab. Brazil and Ecuador. 



131. A. fragrans, Swartz ; st. tufted, 4-8 in. 1., firm, naked, erect, brownish 

 below ; fr. 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br., subdeltoid, tripinnate, with numerous close- 

 placed deltoid pinna on each side, the lowest 3 in. 1., 1^ in. br. ; pinnl. lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid ; segm. subspathulate, 1 lin. br., dentate round the outer edge ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, naked ; veins fine, obscure, one in each tooth 

 of the segm. ; sori copious, at last often covering the whole under surface of the 

 segm. fi, A. faniculaceum, II. B. K.. ; ult. segm. narrowly linear. Hk. Sp. 3. 

 p. 181. 



Hab. Tropical America, from Mexico and the West Indies to Peru and Brazil. The 

 two varieties seem to be quite connected by gradual intermediate gradations. I now 

 look upon these as more compound forms of auritum. 



132. A. Saulii, Hooker; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., firm, erect, greenish, nearly 

 naked ; fr. 4-5 in. 1., 3 in. br., ovate-deltoid, with numerous imbricated pinna, 

 the lowest deltoid, 2 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br. ; pinnl. lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into distant linear-cuneate sharply-toothed segm. ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, naked ; veins obscure, one in each segment ; sori copious. A. Blakis- 

 toni, Baker, edit. 1. 



Hab. Province of Szchaan, West China, Capt. Bldkiston.Kem peJcinense, but more 

 compound, with a deltoid not oblong-lanceolate outline. 



Group of A. lanceolatum. Texture herbaceous or slightly cot^iaceous. Venation 

 pinnate. Fronds 4-8 in. long, lanceolate. Sp. 133-13(5. 



133. A. fontanum, Bernh. ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., wiry, slender, naked, 

 greenish ; fr. 3-6 in. 1., 1-1^ in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with numerous pinnae on 

 each side, the lower ones short and reflexed, the central ones horizontal, 

 -f in. 1., - in. br., cut down to the rachis into several stalked pinnl. on each 

 side, the lower ones oblong, deeply inciso-pinnatifid ; texture herbaceous ; rachis 

 and upper surface bright-green ; veins oblique ; sori copious, covering nearly 

 the whole under surface of the pinnl. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 193. Brit. F. t. 34. 

 ft, A. Bourgcei, Boiss.; pinna oblong, blunt, f in. 1., in. br., cut down about 

 halfway to the rachis into oblong sharply-toothed lobes, most of them somewhat 

 decurved. 



Hab. England to Spain, Naples, and Greece ; Lycia ; Himalayas. A. refractum, Moore 

 (Nat. Brit. F. t. 35), only known in cultivation, comes very near var. j3, but has a chesuut- 

 coloured rachis, and larger, closer, and more distinctly reflexed pinnae. A.exiguum,, 

 Beddome, from the Neilgherries, seems to be a less-divided form of this, with narrow 

 fronds and an ebeneous rachis. A similar plant has been gathered in Mexico by Mr. 

 Glennie, and a long narrow-fronded form, but with broader and more divided pinnae, in 

 Japan by Mr. Wright. 



134. A. varians, Hk. & Gr. ; st. tufted, 1-3 in. 1., slender, naked, greenish ; 

 fr. 4-6 in. 1., 1 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with 8-12 pinnae on each side, the lower 

 ones subdeltoid, ^-f in. 1., J-f in. br., cut down to the rachis into a few cuneato- 

 flabellate pinnl., the lowest 2 lin. across, sharply toothed on the outer edge ; 

 texture herbaceous ; rachis slender, naked, green ; veins one carried into each 

 tooth ; sori copious, when mature covering nearly the whole under surface of 

 the pinnl. Hk. Sp. 3. p. 192. Hk. & Gr. Ic. t. 172. 



Hab. Himalayas, Neilgherries, Ceylon, Cape Colony, Caffraria, Natal. 



