ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 109 



ment next to Aspleninm olUjophylhim. It is a species with which I am un- 

 acquainted. 



58. A. (Euasplenium) persicifolium, J. Sm.; stipes and 

 racliis livid slightly scaly, frond 2 feet and more long sub- 

 coriaceous ovato-lanceolate very opaque dark-green impari- 

 pinnate or terminated by a viviparous scaly l)ud, pinnae nu- 

 merous yet distant (20-30) patent 4-6 inches long petiolate 

 narrow-oblong lanceolate finely acuminate sometimes sub- 

 falcate more or less serrated the apex deeply inciso-serrate 

 the base obliquely cuneate superior rounded or subtruncate 

 inferior subexcised, veins sunk obscure usually forked, sori 

 linear remote rather short patent often irregular not reaching 

 to the costa nor the margin, involucre linear firm-subcori- 

 aceous. — J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 408 {name only). 

 Meiten. Asplen. p. 97- A. Zenkerianum, Kze. in Liuncea, 

 xxiv. p. 259. — Var. latifolium ; pinna; and sori broader, su- 

 perior base of the pinnje almost truncated. A. salignum, 

 Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 72. t. 7 [exceUent) ; Asplen. p. 95 

 [and he brings under it A. Serricula, " Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 19G ?^' 

 var. with secondary veins all undivided). A. salicinum, J. Sm. 

 in Hook. Journ. Bot. p. 97 (j)innae narrow, 6 inches and more 

 long, neither rachis nor pinnse proliferous). Var. /3. atro- 

 virens ; dark-green, rachis almost black proliferous and root- 

 ing at the extremity, pinnae broader mostly quite entire. 



Hah. Luzon, Cuming, n. 125, (racliis proHferous at tlie apex). Nilghiri, 

 Schmidt, Gardner. — Var. latifolium. Ceylon, General Walker, Gardner, Thwaites, 

 w. 361. Isle of Bohol, Philippines, Cuming, n. 348 (salicinum, /. Sm.). — Var. fi. 

 atrovirens. Gondalou Island, Solomon's group, S. Pacific, Milne, n. b[u . — 

 This, and its allied species with large pinnated fronds and willow-leaved-like 

 pinna;, are extremely difficult of determination, and unfortunately figures, ex- 

 cept on a very large scale, such as are quite unsuited to these volumes, 

 would be of very little help, so varied are the forms of the j)inna in the dif- 

 ferent varieties, and even upon one and the same specimen. Mettenius has, I 

 think, correctly united J. Smith's j4. salicinum with the A. persicifolium of the 

 same author. 



The figure given by Mettenius of his A. salignum (not BL), and which is from 

 Ceylon (not Java), gathered by Gardner, admits of no doubt of its being a large 

 form of yl. pei-sicifolium. 



59. A. (Euasplenium) vomeriforme, Hook. ; glabrous, stipes 

 erect a span long and as well as the rachis compressed, frond 

 impari-pinnate H foot long, the pinnae gradually smaller up- 

 wards, petiolate horizontal subcoriaceo-mcmbranaceous pale- 

 brown when dry opaque from a broad base triangulari-oblong 

 or ovate acute rather than acuminate quite entire, superior 

 base truncated parallel with the rachis scarcely forming an 



