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dark-brown (when dry) the extremity running out appa- 

 rently with a continuous growth to a long narrow acumen 

 rooting and bearing young plants at the apex pinnated, 

 pinnae 3-4 inches long very numerous horizontal sessile 

 moderately distant from a broad (i-j inch) cuneated base 

 lanceolate gradually and much acuminated more or less 

 strongly serrated especially above the middle, superior base 

 with a triangular auricle, inferior base often also auricled or 

 with an angle, inferior pinnfe gradually smaller and very 

 obtuse, veins erecto-patent once or twice forked, sori co- 

 pious close-placed regular nearer the costa than the margin, 

 involucre subcoriaceous rigid narrow brown. (Tab. CXC.) 

 — Bl. En. FU. Jav. p. 178. Metten. Asp/en. ;>. 147. Aspl. 

 flagelliferum, IFalL Cat. n. 219 {where, for " Sylhet," read 

 Sincapore). Aspl. sordidum, A're. BoL Zeit. vi. p. 174 {fide 

 Metten.). 



Hab. Java, Blume (in Herb. Nostr.), 31illett. Singapore, Finlayson (Wallich in 

 Herb. Nostr.),Thos. Lobb. Mergui, Griffith. Malacca, CwmiH^.M. 373. Mauritius 

 and Diego Garcia, Bouton. — A remarkable plant from the, frequently, great 

 length of the frond, tapering upwards into a long acumen (with small unde- 

 veloped pinna;), which, apparently, does not cease to elongate till the apex, 

 perhaps by coming in contact with the ground, developes a bud, and that throws 

 out roots and new fronds, hence Dr. Wallich's very appropriate name of A. Jia- 

 gelliferum. Neither Blume nor Mettenius seem to have been aware of this pro- 

 perty. Tiie latter expressly says, " PinucC deniquc (supremae) abortive .'," and 

 " Folia apice evoluta non vidi." 



114. (A. Euasplenium) hirtum, Klfs. ; caudex short thick 

 woody scarcely creeping densely clothed with subulate black 

 fringed hair-like scales which are continued on the stipes and 

 rachis and partially on the costcB beneath where they become 

 patent at length deciduous, stipites subceespitose a span to a 

 foot and more long dull-lurid-blackish rather stout, fronds 1^ 

 to 2 and more feet long lanceolate acuminate coriaceous or 

 stout-chartaceous very opaque brown pinnated, pinnae nu- 

 merous approximate lowest ones small remote sessile hori- 

 zontal, supreme ones gradually smaller and terminating in a 

 pinnatifid acumen, the rest 1-3 inches long lanceolate obtuse 

 or acuminate generally strongly serrated, serratures some- 

 times unequally bi-tridentate, the superior base truncated and 

 with a more or less distinct auricle, inferior base more or less 

 excised (never auricled), veins erecto-patent simple or once 

 or twice forked, sori copious linear regular nearer the costa 

 than the margin, involucres narrow very firm and rigid 

 brown sometimes black. (T.vb. CXCI.) — KaulJ's. En. FU. p. 



