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or more long dark lurid-brown, frond a span to a foot and 

 more long impari-pinnate subcoriaceo-raembranaceous dark- 

 green above paler beneath, pinnae 11-19 spreading rather 

 moderately distant 4-G inches long petiolate narrow-oblong 

 caudato-acuminate very obscurely and unequally toothed the 

 apex serrated the base obliquely cuneate, terminal one ratiier 

 larger and more petiolate, veins subhorizontally patent close 

 uniform simple or very rarely indeed forked at the base ter- 

 minating at the margin with acute (not elavate), all (or very 

 nearly all) soriferous except in the caudate apex, sori narrow 

 forming a multitude of horizontal brown narrow lines ex- 

 tending from the costa to the margin, involucres at first mem- 

 branaceous then contracted and rigid. (Tab. CLXXXIII.) — 

 Asplenium distans, Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Voy.p. 155, not of 

 Don or of Fee. Mr. Moore changes the name to A. remotum 

 in his Ind.FU. p. 125, which he would hardly have done if he 

 had seen the plant. Metten. Asplen. n. 29 B. 



Hab. Navigators' Islands, Brackem'idge. Feejee Islands, Milne. — There can 

 be no question of this Feejee Island Fern being the same as the one from the 

 adjacent Navigators' Islands, which Mr. Brackenridge has called^, distans — a not 

 very appropriate name, even if it were not preoecui)ied. That botanist was at a 

 loss to determine the affinity of this plant. Among the true Asplenia it may rank 

 next to vulcanicum, but the form and texture and colour of the pinna; and the 

 shorter and more distant less horizontal sori of the latter and the more general 

 forked venation readily distinguish it. It comes perhaps in many respects nearer 

 to Blume's J*jw/. jjallichan {A. calophyllum, J. Sm.), but that is truly a diplazioid 

 Fern, sometimes altogether so, and the venation is more branched. The sori, 

 though very close, do not appear to become confluent in our specimens, as 

 described by Brackenridge. 



46. A. (Euasplenium) prionnrus, J. Sm. ; caudex a short 

 thick hard rhizome with copious woolly roots and above a 

 few firm lanceolate acuminated scales, stipites tufted a span 

 to a foot high slightly scaly pale-brown, fronds a span to 18 

 inches long ovate coriaeeo-membranaceous dark-green above 

 pale beneath pinnated, pinna) rather distant 5-6 inches long 

 very patent petiolate 10-18 pairs narrow-lanceolate long and 

 gradually acuminated, the base obliquely cuneate deeply and 

 regularly inciso-serrate the teeth longer and more distant on 

 the acumen, veins approximate mostly simple, sori copious 

 linear oblique parallel extending from the costa to the base 

 of the serratures, involucres firm pale-coloured. — J. Sm. in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 408 {natne only). Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 97- 



Hab. Luzon, Cuming, n. 197. — This has the appearance of a distinct species. 



