ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 87 



toeniosum, Kze. in Hot. Zeit. vi. p. 145. Thamnopteris, Pr. 

 Neottopteris, Fee. 



llab. Amboiiia? Ventenat. Ovolau, Feojec Islanrls, BrackenruJge, Jffilne, n. 

 291 (bearing the same number as a specimen I have referred to j. iS it n dense). 

 Java, Zollinger. — I cannot but feel doulitful of this being Willdcnow's y/. Amboi- 

 nense, of which the fructification was unknown to the author, and the scales of 

 the stipes of which he describes as ovate and brown, whereas they are narrow- 

 subnlate and black. Urackenridge's figure is excellent, exactly corresponding 

 with our plant (from the same island, too), save that the veins and fructification 

 are represented as almost quite transverse or horizontal, wliereas ours are between 

 patent and horizontal; and, since the expression used by the author is " venae 

 oblique parallels," the artist is perhaps a little in fault. The species I cannot 

 but look upon in many respects as intermediate between A. Sutidcnuc, and the 

 following, A. Fejeense : from the former it differs in the less horizontal sori, and 

 from the only stipes and caudex I have seen of ^1 . Sundense, which are quite naked, 

 in these being clothed with black subidate scales. 



17. A. (Euasplenium) Fejeense, Brack,; "stipes a span 

 long squamose at the l)ase," fronds H-2 feet long 2 inches 

 broad subchartaceous bright-green elongato-lanceolate some- 

 times caudate or more frequently rather acuminate often 

 proliferous at the apex below, moderately attenuated into a 

 subcuneate base, the margin subrepand otherwise entire, 

 veins rather distant subhorizontally patent, sori generally 

 unequal and subdistant narrow-linear often extending nearly 

 to the margin, involucres narrow membranaceous. — Brack. 

 Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 147. ^.19./. 1. Metten. Aspien. p. 

 90. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 129. 



Hab. On trees and moist rocks, Feejee and Samoan (or Navigators) Islands, 

 Brackenridge. Island of Aneiteum, Rev. Mr. Inglis, C. Moore, with a rambling 

 climbing stem (caudex) which sometimes reaches the tops of the highest trees, — 

 31' GUlivrai/, n. 92; Milne, n. 300. — Although I possess tolerably copious spe- 

 cimens of this plant, as in the case of A. Sundense, I have no unbroken specimen, 

 no stipes or base of the frond; and the stipes is unknown except as noticed by 

 Mr. C. Moore above. Yet I think it is impossi!)le to doubt the plant being the 

 A. Fejeense of Brackenridge: the shape and size of the frond and the sori per- 

 fectly correspond, and, in the absence of stipites to the full-sized fronds, the 

 presence of a comparatively long stipes may be expected from that of the young 

 fronds germinating from the gemnnE exactly as represented by Brackenridge. 

 The sori and veins do vary somewhat in tlieir direction on different individuals : 

 the larger size and long stipes will however distinguish it from A. Amboinense, 

 and the oblique, not horizontal, sori from A. Sundense. 



18. A, (Euasplenium) Gr'iffitldanuin, Hook.; caudex short 

 thick subrepent, fronds caspitose span to nearly a foot high 

 an inch in diameter subcoriaceous ])ale-green with scattered 

 small scales lanceolate shortly acuminate tapering gradually 

 below into a short winged stipes the margin rather deeply 

 and coarsely crenato-scrrate, the narrow acumen excepted. 



