492 D1PL011A. 



tripinnatifid ; rachis smooth, livid, scattered over with flaccid scales above ; 

 pinna, oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. 1. ; pinnl. sessile or short-stalked, ligulate-lan- 

 ceolate, 2J in. 1., f-| in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into bluntly-toothed 

 scgm.; veins simple, distant, 3-4-jugate ; sori thickish infra-medial. Kuhn, 

 Linn. 36. p. 103. 



Hab. Island of Rawak, Gaudichaud. 



245*. A. (Dipl.) polyanthes, Soland ; arborescent ; fr. ample, deltoid, tripin- 

 natifid ; rachises naked, grey, not muricated ; pinnae oblong-lanceolate, 1-H 

 ft. 1. ; pinnl. ligulate-lanceolate, distinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 1., 1 in. br., cut down 

 to a narrow wing into close blunt subentire segm. 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture mem- 

 branous ; surfaces glabrous, bright-green ; veins 7-8-jugate, distinct, lower forked; 

 sori not touching midrib or edge, lower 2 lin., upper 1 lin. 1. 



Hab. Otaheite, Sir Joseph Banks. 



260*. A. (Dipl.) herbaceum, Baker ; arborescent ; rachises stramineous, naked ; 

 fr. ample, subdeltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; lower pinnce oblong-deltoid, 1^-2 ft. 1. ; pinnl. 

 distinctly stalked, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; segm. 

 sessile, ligulate-oblong, blunt, pinnatifid, with close blunt entire lobes ; texture 

 membranous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins pinnate in final lobes ; sori 

 1-1^ lin., touching midrib, falling short of edge. Diplazium herbaceum, Fee, 

 Fil. Bras. t. 23. fig. 1. A. Glaziovii, Baker, Fl. Bras. fasc. 49. p. 455. 



Hab. Eio Janeiro, Glaziou, 2061, 5303, Lieut. Carr ; and a closely -allied plant from 

 Peruvian Andes, Spruce, 5701. 



277*. A. (Hemi.) Gfieisbreghtii, Fourn. ; fr. densely csespitose, 1 & ! H 

 in. br. at middle, lanceolate, entire, narrowed gradually from the middle to an 

 acute point and short st. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces pale-green, glabrous ; 

 veins fine, erecto-patent, uniform, forming several rows of areolse between the 

 midrib and edge ; sori linear, largest 1 in. !., forming an angle of 10 degrees with 

 midrib near it. Fil. Mex.p. 111. t. 5. 



Hab. Mexico, Gheisbreght, 16. 



XXXVIII*. DIPLORA, Baker. 



Sorus sausage-shaped, running up the erecto-patent simple vein from the mid- 

 rib of the frond to its margin, tnvol. with two equal narrowly strapshaped 

 valves, meeting in the middle over the raised vein, and bursting open as the sorus 

 matures. Journ. Bot. new series 2. p. 235, with plate. 



1. D.integrifolia, Baker; rhizome wide-creeping, naked, green, woody, under 

 1 lin. thick ; st. articulated at the base, under 1 in., naked, greenish ; fr. entire, 

 linear-ligulate, 9-10 in. 1., i in. br., narrowed to both ends, obscurely crenato- 

 repand ; texture membranous ; surfaces green, naked ; veins distinct, erecto-patent, 

 usually simple ; sori |-| in. 1., 50-60 on each side of midrib. 



Hab. Solomon Isles, Mrs. Burnett. Habit and rhizome like Asplenium viltccformc. 



XLIIL ASPIDIUM. Page 248-259. 



8*. A. (Polyst.) craspedosorum, Maxim. ; caud. erect ; scales large, brown, lan- 

 ceolate ; st. l-l^in., stramineous, scaly throughout, like the rachis ;/r. lanceolate, 

 simply pinnate, 4-6 in. 1., f-1 j in. br., often rooting at tip ; pinnce 20-30-jugat?, 

 sessile, lanceolate, blunt, unequal-sided, serrate, l|-2 lin. br., square on upper 

 side, cuneate-tnmcate on lower side at base, lowest shorter, detiexed ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; both sides pale-green, with a few scales ; sori crowded, marginal. 



