ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 131 



4-5 inches to a foot and even 1^ foot long from dcltoicl- 

 ovate to narrow-oblong acuminate pinnate, pinnce varying 

 much in number size and shape (terminal ones very small 

 and more or less confluent) subrhombeo-ovate or lanceolate 

 often falcate especially towards the apex acute or even acu- 

 minate generally approximate from h an inch to 3 inches 

 long more or less inciso-serrate, superior base truncated and 

 parallel with the rachis not auricled, inferior base and some- 

 times the whole inferior half excised cut off as it were in a 

 straight line or deeply lunate form, so that the costa is in 

 part or nearly wholly close to the inferior margin, veins 

 forked at the superior base two or three times, sori (rarely 

 subdiplazioid) rather numerous small oblong in the superior 

 half, in the inferior few and those towards the apex or none, 

 involucre membranaceous. — Sm. Ic. Ined. t. 72. ^w. Syn. 

 FiL p. SO {excl. sijn. Plum.). Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 322. Hook, 

 et Grev. Ic. FiL 1. 114. Metten. Asplen. p. 132. A. amoenum, 

 Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 108. Metten. Asjjlen. p. 131. A. laetum, 

 WalL Cat. n. 209 [not Siv.) . A. excisum, Pr. EpimeL Bot., 

 and A. fraternum, p. 74. A. abscissum, BL En. FiL Juv. p. 

 182 [excL all the synonyms). A. obscurum ?, BL En. Fil.Jav. 

 p. 180. A. porphyrocaulon, BL En. FiL Jav. p. 182. A. 

 erythrocaulon, BL En. FiL Jav. p. 183. A. eroso-dentatum, 

 BL En. FiL Jav. p. 182 {fide specim. in Herb. Nostr.). A. 

 decurrens, TFall. Cat. n. 190. A. unilaterale, La^n. Encycl. 

 ii. p. 305 {excl. syn. Plum.). A. cristatum. Wall. Cat. {large 

 form). A. serrcBforme, Metten. Asplen. p. 119. t. 4. /. 13.^ 

 A. trapeziforme, Wall. Cat. n. 66. Roxb. Crypt, p. 497- A. 

 emarginato-dentatum, Zenk. MS. Kze. in Linnaa, xxiv. p. 

 263. 



Ilab. East Indies. Bourbon, Commerson. Mauritius, Bouton, Bojer, Sieber, 

 Syn.Fil.n. 70; Fl. MLvta, n. 300. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1075, 1077, 1038; 

 Thwaites, n. 427, 13.*?7, and 32G9. Nepal, Wallich, n. 211, and Hooker and 

 Thomson. Sikkim Himalaya, J. D. Hooker, n. 109 (small pinnules, much laci- 

 niatcd). Above Simla, Edgeworth, and Col. Bates. Chittagong and Khasya 

 (large), /. D. Hooker, n. 187, elev. 8000 feet. Moulmein, Thos. Lobb, Parish. 

 Chippedong, JJ'allich, n. 209. Cochin, Johnston. Assam, GriJJith. Neilgherries, 

 Zenker {Kunze). Bootan, Booth, Griffith (large). Khasya, Bimons (very large, 

 pinna3 3 inches, singularly flexuoso-falcate, deeply and Innately excised at the 

 lower base only : A. cristatum, Wall.). Mishmee, Griffith. Luzon, Cuming 

 (large), n. 110 and 40 {small). Java, Blnme {large). Pacific Islands; Oahu, 

 Barclay. Feejee Islands ; Ovalau, Milne. Tropical Africa ; Fernando Po, Barter. 



* I include states of this species with livido-stramineous stipites and with pinna; 

 exactly agreeing with the figure of Mettenius {A. serraforme), believing such to 

 bo slight varieties of A. resectmn. 



