ASPLENIUM, § EUASPM5MtIM. 153 



Ilal). Pacific Islands; Sandwich Isles, Forster, Menzipx (Hawaii), Reechpy, 

 Seemann ; Society Islands, Bidwill ; Lord Howe's Island, Sunday Island, 

 M'Gillirrni/ and Milne. Malay Islands ; Java, Blmne, Thos. Lobh (one speci- 

 men proliferous below the apex) ; Luzon, Cumi/iff, n. 99 (small). East Indies, 

 near Serinagur, Moorcro/t ; Khasya, Simons, n. 237, T/ios. Lobb (very deeply 

 lobed, the superior basal lobe forming a large, incised auricle). Cocbin, Jiev. 

 Mr. Johnston. Ceylon, Gardner, n. Ht81 (lobes elongated, cut into deep, narrow 

 lacinifc), and n. 1.310 (ordinary form). N. W. Australia, Brisbane Uiver, F. 

 Mueller (lobes shorter than the common forui, and insomuch ap[)roachii)g A.fal- 

 catum). — We are in this, the Furcalum-^vmxYi, engaged in sjjecies, perha])s of 

 all Ferns the most variable, so that scarcely any two botanists can be expected 

 to agree as to their limits. The present has often been confounded with A. 

 conti(/uum on the one hand and with A. falcatum on the other. The figure of 

 A. caudatum in Schkuhr, well represents the normal form of our plant now 

 under consideration. 



120. A. (Euasplenium) horrkhnn, Klfs. ; fronds ample 2 

 feet and probably much more long nearly a foot wide cori- 

 aceous firm very opaque ovato-lanceolate pinnated, pinnec 

 numerous 5-6 inches long very patent and even recurved 

 gradually smaller towards the a])ex sessile from an unequally 

 cuneate base which is above truncate and auricled below in- 

 cised broad linear-lanceolate finely acuminated deeply j)inna- 

 tifid coarsely inciso-serrate towards the apex, the lobes obo- 

 vate or cuneate more or less broad often truncate entire or 

 toothed at the apex decurrent below (so that the pinnre may 

 be said to be pinnate, the pinnules decurrent and confluent, 

 forming a broad winged rachis), veins subflabellate, sori 

 linear oblong a series or chain of them parallel with the 

 rachis, on the disc of the lobes are from 1-4 sori distant 

 from the rachis and opening towards the centre of the lobes, 

 involucre firm brown, rachis very stout sometimes 2 lines 

 wide lurid-brown shaggy with copious long ferruginous some- 

 what chaffy hairs. (Tab. CXC\n.)—KauIfs. En. FU. p. 175. 

 Hook, et Am. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 106. Brack. Fil. 

 U. S. Exp/. Exp. p. 158. Moore, Ind. Fit. p. 12/. Aspl. 

 truncatum, Bl. En. Fil. p. 184 {and in Herb. Hook.). Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 150. 



Ilab. Sandwich Islands, Oahu, EschschoUz, Beechey, Braclcenridge. Java, 

 Bliane. — A very fine and stout species, so large that portions only are gathered 

 by collectors, and I do not find the caudex or stipes to be described by any 

 author. The broad, rigid rachis, shaggy with ferruginous hairs, and the form of 

 the pinnffi and position of the sori, afford abundant characters. 



121. A. (Euasplenium) anisodontwn, Pr. ; caudex short 

 stout creeping paleaceous with broad-subulate sphagnoid 

 scales, stipites 3 inches to a span long, " fronds coriaceous 

 oblong-lanceolate pinnate, pinnee petiolate linear-lanceolate 



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