1)0 ASPKKXH'Nr. § RUASPLKMUM. 



erocto-patent usually once-forked, sori linear broad in age 

 neither extending to the costa nor to the margin, a1)out half 

 an inch long.— // V///. Cat. n. 200. Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 

 7 1 . Mett. Asplen .p. 145. 



Hal). East Indies, frequent. Nepal, Wallich. Assam, Griffith. Kumaon, 

 8000 feet, Slrachcy and ]l'interbottom. Sikkiin and Eastern Nepal, elev. 

 7-lOUO feet. Ceylon, Mrs. General Walker, Garrlner, 1334, T/nvaife.t (generally 

 shorter fronds and broader in proportion). — The elongalo-lanceolate, thick, 

 carnoso-coriaceo'as fronds, gradually tapering at each extremity, together with the 

 sunken or immersed veins and their erecto-patent direction, readily distinguish 

 this si)ecies from all with which I am acquainted. 



Doubtful species with simple fronds. 



24. A. (Euasplenium ?) lanciforme, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 193. 



Hab. Guiana. Name only. — M. Fee alludes to it under his Aspl. integrum, 

 which is itself considered to be a form of A. serratum. 



25. A. (Euasplenium ?) linguaforme, Roxb. ; " stipes long 

 and polished, fronds tongue-shaped entire smooth, fructifi- 

 cations in numerous approximated lines over the whole disc 

 and extending almost to the margin, involucre not visible 

 in the dry specimens." Roxb. in Calcut. Journ. of Nat. Hist. 

 1844,^;. 407. 



Hab. Moluccas. 



** (Lobatae; fronds lobed or palmated.) 



26. A. (Euasplenium) trilobnm, Cav. ; caudex small stout, 

 at the apex clothed with ferruginous im1)ricated glossy scales, 

 stipites tufted 2-2^ inches long, fronds coriaceous rhomboid 

 acuminate entire crenate three-lobed or tripartite segments 

 acuminated and more or less incised, intermediate lobe the 

 longest, costa very slender, veins immersed several times 

 subflabcUato-dichotomous, sori large erecto-patent linear- 

 oblong, involucre rigid brown. — Cav. Fral. 1801, p. 255. 

 mild. Sp. PL V. p. 306. Gay, Fl. Chil. t. 499. Mett. Asplen. 

 p. 146. Hook. 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t.ll. ined. A. trapezoides, 

 Siv. Sijn. Fil. p. 76. mild. Sp. PL v. p. 306. Schk. FiL t.G7. 

 Gay, FL C/iil. t. 499. Mett. Asplen. p. 146. A. parvulum, 

 Hook. Ic. PL t. 222, [small form) . 



Hab. S. Chili and Chiloe, P(cppig, Cuming, n. 820, Capt. P. King, W. Lobby 

 Lectiler, Gay, Harvey, etc. Peru (.'), {Swarf:). Brazil, Twcedie in Herb. Noslr. 

 Marianne Islands (?), {Willdenow). — There can scarcely be a question but that the 

 Aspl. trapezoides of Swartz is the same as A. trilohnm, or rather, is the less per- 

 fect state of the plant, as_our ^. ;;ari;u/M?H certainly is. I was, in this latter, misled 



