152 ASPLEXIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



tapering into a verj^ long narrow coarsely and remotely ser- 

 rated acumen pinnatifid with rather blunt generally bifid 

 segments, the superior base somewhat truncate and sub- 

 auricled, the auricle laciniated, veins erecto-patent forked 

 twice or thrice in the auricle, sori on the vein next the costa 

 and parallel with and close to the costa linear, involucres 

 firm rigid. (Tab. CXCU.)—Sw. Fl. Lid. Occ. iii. p. 1614. 

 Syn. FiL p. 82 [excl. syn.). Willd. Sp. PI. v, p. 334. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 149. t. 4. /. 1 b (pinna only, nat. size). Aspl. dis- 

 sectum, Sw. Prodr. p. 139. 



Hab. West Indies, Jamaica, Swarf:, Menzies, M'Fadi/en. Cuba, Wright, n. 

 852. " Columbia, Moritz, n. 246." — Mettenius' figure, re])resenting only a soli- 

 tary pinna, nat. size, is smaller and much less caudate than the majority of my 

 specimens, and scarcely difters from some narrow pinna; of A. protcnstim. I 

 believe it, however, to be distinct and rare, and almost peculiar to the West 

 Indies. I have not myself seen specimens except from those islands. 



119. A. (Euasplenium) caudaium, Forst. ; caudex nearly 

 as thick as a swan's-quill terete repent,* clothed especially 

 towards the apex with broad-subulate brown sphagnoid im- 

 bricated falcate scales, stipites (rachis and indeed whole frond 

 when young villoso-squaniose) subaggregate a span or more 

 long dull-lurid-brown, fronds 1-H foot long coriaceo-char- 

 taceous broad-lanceolate pinnated acuminated the apex pin- 

 natifid, pinna3 numerous rather remote 2-3-4 inches long 

 petiolate subfalcate from a more or less elongated and ob- 

 liquely cuneated subrhomboid base lanceolate gradually and 

 long acuminated (caudate), superior base rounded or subau- 

 ricled scarcely truncate, the inferior more or less excised, the 

 margins very coarsely serrato-pinnatifid, superior serratures 

 entire sharp the rest of the serratures or lobes bifid or (as 

 are the auricles) inciso-serrate, veins erecto-patent mostly 

 forked, sori linear-elongated almost parallel with and near 

 the costa often imbricating in age frequently confluent, in- 

 volucres firm-membranaceous. — Forst. Prodr. p. 80. Sw. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 82. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 335. Schk. Fil. p. 72. 

 t.77 [faithful). Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 184. Moore, Lid. Fil. 

 p. 119. Aspl.? aureum, BL En. Fil. Jav. p. 185 {Jide Herb. 

 J. Sm.). Aspl. truncatilobum. Fee (Tarachia, Pr.). A. cya- 

 theeefolium, 7io?-?/, in Rich. Voy. Astrolab. Bot. p. 19. Dipla- 

 zium cyathesefolium, Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 88 [Jide specim.). 

 Cuming, n. 159. A. multisectum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 185 

 {Herb. Nostr.). 



* Mettenius says, " truncus erectus." 



