106 ASPLEXIUM, § EUASPLEXIUM. 



Gardner, n. 1070. Dindigul, Delanger.—lh\% is a more slender and graceful 

 Fern than A. Prionnrus, J. Sm., with more distant pinn.x of a much paler colour 

 and more coriaceous and glossy texture, mucli narrower at the hase (tapering at 

 both ends) equally and narrowly cuneated at the base, much less strongly ser- 

 rated, shorter and tnore distant sori, which are much less conspicuous on the pale 

 fronds than on those of A. Prionurus. 



50. A. (Euasplenium) hvgipes. Fee; "fronds quite c;la- 

 brous ovate and as well as the stipes rachis and petiole of the 

 pinnre reddish-yellow {helveole),])mw<R ovato-lanceolate long- 

 petioled acuminate acute at the base the margins crenato- 

 dentate, veins thick simple not extending to the m.argin pro- 

 liferous in the middle, sporothecia rather long diminishing 

 from the base towards the apex, sporangia ovate, pedicel 

 slender very long articulated, spores ovate." Ft-e, 'Jme Mem. 

 FoKff.j}. 49. t. 16. /. 3.—3Ieiten. Asplen. p. 95. 



llab. " Ceylon, Col. Walker {in Herb. Graham.)." — Although rich in the Ferns 

 of Ceylon collected by Colonel and Mrs. Walker, I find none I can satisfactorily 

 refer to this plant, which, judging from the figure, resembles small specimens of 

 y/. vulcanlcum, Bl., or it mav be an indifferent specimen of A. Wiyhtianum, 

 Wall. 



51. A. (Euasplenium) enatwn, Brack.; "stipes smooth 

 angled, fronds glabrous pinnate, pinnte petiolate alternate 

 distant membranaceous oblong-lanceolate unequally serrated 

 obliquely cuneate at the base, rachis and costa proliferous, 

 sori oblique remote, involucre narrow-linear entire." Brack. 

 Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 153. /. 2\.—Metten. Asplen. p. 100. 



Hab. Kaala Mountains, Oahu, Sandwich Islands, Brackenridge. — This Fern is 

 unknown to me. Fronds, as represented in the figure, a foot and a half long, 

 proliferous at the apex ; pinna; with much of the form of A. salicifolium, but 

 peculiarly straight, not in the least falcate, gemmiferous and proliferous on the 

 superior side of the costa, a little distant from the base. In many respects it 

 resembles our ])roliferous form of A. liueatum, and the author places it next to 

 J. pro/enstim* Klfs. (not Schrader), a species unknown to most botanists, and 

 remarks that A. enatum is very distinct from it in the membranaceous and serrate 

 pinn;c, broader at the base, with a proliferous costa, and that its affinity is perhaps 

 closer to A. obliquum, Forst. 



52. A. (Euasplenium) alpestre, Bl.; "frond pinnate cori- 

 aceous .glabrous, pinnae alternate subsessile linear -lanceolate 

 acute obliquely rotundate at the base subauriculate serrulate 



* A. protemum, Klfs. (not Schrad.) ; "fronds pinnate; pinna; lanceolate, at- 

 tenuate, serrated; superior base rotundato-, inferior abscisso-cuneate, petiolate; 

 petiole compressed, decurrent," A'^. JEn. Fil. p. 1G7; Mel/en. Asplen. p. 176. — 

 Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands, Chatnisso. — Mettenius places it among thediplazioid 

 As])leina, but be does not appear to know the species. 



