ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. Ill 



Amboyna A. cultrifoUum h.is probaljly nothing to ilo with tliis.* Tlie caudex, in 

 Pluniier's plant, is represented as decidedly creeping, and in that i-ospect, as well 

 as in some of tlie piniue having a very distinct, sharp auricle, the plant not inaptly 

 resembles A. riparium of Liebniann. 



In my herbarium, Mr. Moore has inscribed three Ferns as belonging to Aspl. 

 cullrifolium of Linnaeus : one is " Aspl. salicifolium," Sieber, Fl. Mixta, from 

 Martinique, n. 346; and specimens from Jamaica, Dr. Wright; from Piirdie, 

 Trinidad, n. 3 ; and I have besides specimens from the Hluetield Mountains, 

 Purdie ; from Venezuela, Fendler, n. 113; from Ocana, N. Granada, Schlim, n. 

 397 and 600 (pinnic more membranaceous, narrower and more acuminated, and 

 subinciso-serrate) ; and from Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, with a sharp, erect 

 auricle, n. 4085 ; this ])lant, however, is very doubtful. All these bear a consi- 

 derable resemblance to A. auriculatum, Sw. (A. falx, Desv.), but they want the 

 large, rounded, and, if I may so say, crested auricle of that species, when an 

 auricle is at all present. On the other hand, it bears little or no reseml)lance 

 to the large-fronded, creeping-rooted plant of Plumier, with pinmc 6 inches long 

 and If inch broad, the four lower pinna; having acute auricles nearly | of an 

 inch long. Mettenius refers the A. salicifolium of Sieb. Fl. Martin, n. 34 1/ 

 (346 .'), to his A. fair, Desv. My specimens are scarcely at all diplazioid. 



G2. A. (Euasplenium) anisopJiyUum, Kze. ; "fronds linear- 

 lanceolate" (in our specimens often ovato-lanceolate) "mem- 

 branaceous pinnated, pinnae numerous approximated subop- 

 posite smaller at each extremity patently divergent ovato-lan- 

 ceolate (often oblong-lanceolate as in Mettenius's figure) long- 

 acuminate obtusely serrated or incised, the base unequal the 

 superior base truncated the inferior exciso-cuneatc tapering 

 into a short petiole, sori sparse elliptical, stipes and rachis 

 winged above partially paleaceous." Kze. in Linnoia, x. p. 

 511. — Pappe and Raivs. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 18. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 99. t. 4. f. 12. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 112. A. nigrescens, 

 Hook. fil. PL of Galopnyos, in Linn. Soc. Trans, xx. p. 170. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 101. — Var. inciso-subpinnatifidum ; pinnae 

 lanceolate pinnatifido-serrate, segments in the lower half 

 bifid. Var. latifolium ; fronds narrow elongated, pinnae 

 shorter from a broad base suddenly acuminated deeply 

 inciso-serrated, lower serratures unequally bifid superior ones 

 entire all obtuse, rachis ])roliferous at the apex. (Tab. 

 CLXVI.) — A. anisophyllum, j3, Kze. in Linncea, x. p. 512. 

 Var. elongatum, Metten. Asplen. p. 99. 



Hab. Normal form, with the pinna; generally lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate 



* A. (Euasplenium) cultrifoUum, Roxb. (var. L.) ; " stipes smooth, grooved; 

 fronds (2-4 feet high) suboppositely pinnate ; leaflets lanceolato-falcate, taper- 

 pointed, gash-serrate, firm, and smooth ; fructifications in rather remote, longish, 

 parallel lines ; involucre separating inwaids," Itoxb. Crypt. PL by Griff, p. 498 

 {vix L.). 



Hab. Amboyna, Ko.vlnirgh. 



