ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 107 



furcato-venulose, sori transverse, rachis and stipes sparsely 

 setose." BL En. Fil. Juv. p. 176- — Metten. Asplen. p. 97- 



Hab. Loftiest mountains of Java, Blame. — " Resembling ytspl. nodulosum, Klfs. 

 (A. lineatum, Sw. et nobis), wliich differs in tbe pinna) being oijbquely cuneate at 

 the base, and the rachis subgcniculate," BL 



53. A. (Euasplenium) Ae^e?-of/o;?, Bl. ; " caudex erect clothed 

 with ovate obtuse scales, petiole sulcate above and evidently 

 margined with the decurrent segments sparingly paleaceous 

 at length glabrous, frond 1-2 feet longcoriaceo-memljranaceous 

 deep-green ovate pinnated, pinnae petiolate 8-10 pairs, 2-3 

 inches long 8 lines to 1 inch wide sparingly clothed with 

 appressed substellated scales, from an unequally cuneate base 

 (the inferior excised) superior decurrent subrhombeo-lanceo- 

 late, the apex long-acuminate unequally dentato-serrate, veins 

 oblique evident fijrked above, sori all costate elongated evi- 

 dently distant from the margin, involucre membranaceous 

 entire plane." Mett. — A. heterodon, BL En. Fil. Jew. p. 179. 

 Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 72. /. 8./. 1, 2. Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 95. 



Hab. Parasitic on trees. Java, Blume. — Tliis has broader pinna; and fewer sori 

 than A. vulcanieum, and the habit is much stouter and more rigid. Blume com- 

 pares it with A. macrophylliim, Sw., A. salicifoUum, L., and A. lineatum, Sw. I 

 have never seen an authentic specimen, but a cultivated one from Java, sent to 

 me by Miquel under that name, is evidently Asjjl. vulcanieum, having the same 

 copious long sori. 



54. A. (Euasplenium) viviparum, Bl. ; " frond pinnate sub- 

 coriaceous glabrous rooting at the apex, pinnae alternate 

 shortly petiolate narrow-lanceolate acuminate unequally at- 

 tenuated at the base serrulate from the middle to the apex, 

 veins parallel, sori parallel approximate, stipes and rachis 

 subterete glabrous." BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 17G. — Metten. As- 

 plen. p. 95. 



Hab. On trees in woods. Java, Blume. — " From As])l. nilidum (Jucidum ?), 

 Forst., this differs as well in the size of the frond as in the cuneate and not 

 attenuated base of the pinna;." — It is quite impossible to determine species of 

 the larger genera by such meagre characters as the above. 



55. A. (Euasplenium) oliffop/iyllum, Klfs. ; caudex short 

 thick paleaceous above, stipites a span to a foot long broadly 

 canaliculate in front scaly below, frond 1-2 feet long dark 

 bright-green coriaceo-membranaceous impari-pinnate, pinnre 

 seven to fifteen G-7 inches long (terminal one the largest) pe- 

 tiolate all oblong-lanceolate acuminate nearly equally cuneate 

 at the base entire or obscurely crenato-serrate, petiole decur- 



