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(3-4) terminal from the caudex stout 3-4-G inches long Hvid 

 pubescenti-squamulose at length glabrous, fronds 1-2 feet 

 long lanceolate acuminate attenuated l)elo\v firm subcoria- 

 ceous pinnated, pinnae 1-2^ inches long numerous rather 

 distant horizontal beneath a little pubescent at the base 

 sessile not unfrequently proliferous at the axils linear-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate obliquely cuneate at the base superior 

 base subtruncated pinnatificl about halfway down, lobes re- 

 tuse 2-4-tootlied the lowest superior one forming generally 

 a cuneate auricle which is bi-trifid the inferior base excised, 

 veins erecto-patulous 1 -bifurcate, sori linear almost parallel 

 with the costa generally one corresponding to each lobe." 

 Schrad. Got. Gel. Anz. 1818, p. 916. Adumbr. Fil. Cap. 

 p. 29. t. 16. Kze. in Liiinaa, x. p. 513. Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 149. Pappe and Raivs. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 18. A. mu- 

 tilatum,. Kaulf. En. Fil. p. 171. Sieh. Szjn. Fil. n. 137- A. 

 porrectum,J7'o//. Cat. n. 224 {afterwards corrected to A. poly- 

 odon. If 'all.). 



riab. South Africa, Mundt and Maire, Drege, Sanderson, Meade. Natal, Pappe, 

 Major Garden (frond more membranaceous). Abyssinia, Siniensian Mountains, 

 near Adcsula, 1842, n. 1264, and 1853, «.6ll (pinn.T slinrter, more membranaceous, 

 less deeply pinnatifid), Schimper. Mauritius, IVallich (in Herb. Nus/r.), Bojer 

 (some of the Mauritius specimens resemble the ordinary Cape form : others are 

 more membranaceous). — The accurate Schlechtendal pronounces this to be "dis- 

 tinctissima species," and Kunze '• e distinctissimis;" but I confess to possessing 

 specimens from the Cape, and from Abyssinia, and from Mauritius, which, from 

 their smaller and shorter and broader and more membranaceous pinna, I have a 

 difficulty in determining whether they belong rather to this plant {A. pro- 

 temum) or to a large form of A. erectum. This is especially the case with what 

 Kaulfuss describes as A. mutilatum, but which Schlechtendal and succeeding 

 authors refer to A. erectum. 



117. A. (Euasplenium) fissidens, Bory ; "fronds striated 

 pinnate, pinnules alternate lanceolato-acuminate, superior 

 base truncate, inferior base deeply cuneato-crenate, crena- 

 tures fisso-dentate, sori oblique." Bory hi Belang. Voy. Bot. 

 p. 49.— Metten. Asplen. p. 149. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 130. 



Hah. Forests of Mauritius and Bourbon, Belanger. — " Large and beautiful 

 species with fronds 2-4 feet long, pinnai 3 inches long, 6-8 lines wide." 



118. A. (Euasplenium) bissectum, Sw. ; caudex short thick 

 woody clothed with dark-brown broad-subulate sphagnoid 

 scales, stipites 1-6 inches long lurid-brown, frond 12-18 

 inches long, broad-lanceolate acuminate pinnate, pinn;c mo- 

 derately distant horizontal petiolate subcoriaceous 2-3 inches 

 long from a broad unequally cuneate base narrow-lanceolate 



