158 ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



Hab. On trees, Java, Blnme, Luzon, Brackenridge 1 "Valde simile As])l.fal- 

 cafo, Lam., et Jspl. nitenti, S\v., ast serraturis frondis distinctum," Bl. — This is 

 all that is recorded of the species : it may probably be looked upon as a form of 

 the protean A.falcatum. 



129. A. (Euasplenium) macroj9%//Mm, Sw. ; caudex repent 

 stout paleaceous with subulate sphagnoid dark-brown scales, 

 stipites 4-5 inches to a foot long lurid- or greenish-brown de- 

 ciduously paleaceous^ fronds 8-10 inches to a foot and more 

 long broad-ovate coriaceous firm reddish-brown when dry 

 piimate, pinntc 3-5 to 21-25 petiolate horizontal from a 

 broad cuneate base trapezio-ovate or broad-lanceolate gra- 

 dually tapering into a more t)r less elongated acumen 3-5-6 

 inches long undivided or with one or two sharp lobes espe- 

 cially the superior ones from 1-3 inches broad in the broad- 

 est part, superior base rounded, inferior excised in a straight 

 line unequally and slightly or deeply inciso-serrate straight 

 or falcate striated with venation, terminal pinna often much 

 larger than the rest bifid or trifid, veins numerous crowded 

 parallelo-radiate several times forked, sori very long in the 

 large pinnae as long as the veins 2-3 inches, involucres very 

 narrow firm. (Tab. CXCVI.) — Sw.m Schrad. Journ. 1800, ii. 

 p. 52. Siv. Syn. Fil.p. 77 and 261. IViUd. Sp. PL v. p. 311. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 155. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 143 [excL syn. 

 Lowe, t. 42, which is A. nitens). A. intermedium, Kaulf. in 

 Sieb. Syn. n. 68. Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 181. A. Kaulfussi, Pr. 

 Tent. Pterid. p. 106. A. canaliculatum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 

 180. A. coriaceum, Roxb. Crypt. Fil. p. 497- A. Finlay- 

 sonianum, Wall. Cat. p. 101. A. megalophyllum, Desv. in 

 Mem. Soc. Linn. vi. p. 275. A. platyphyllum, J. Sm. Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. iii. p. 408 {name only). A. oxyphyllum, J. S?7i. 

 in Hook. Journ. of Bot. iii. p. 408 {name only). Kze. in Bot. 

 Zeit. vi. p. 441. Hook, in Keiv Gard. Misc. ix. p. 342. — 

 Var. urophyllum ; pinnse broad-lanceolate long-caudate. (Tau. 

 CXCVII.)— A. urophyllum, Wall. Cat. n. 192. Metten. As- 

 plen. p. 153. A. Tavoyanum, Wall. Cat. n. 1035. 



Hab. Mauritius, Grvendol (<S'w;.), Bouton in Ilerb. Nosfr., Sieber, n. 68 (my 

 only specimen from this locality is the state with narrower pinnscj. Malay Islands, 

 Java, Blume, ZoUinc/er, n. 151. Singapore, Lobb. Fcnang, Finlayson, O. Porter 

 (pinnae caudate at the apex, deeply inciso-serrate). Luzon, Cimiing, n. 42. Ma- 

 lacca, Cuming, n. 375 ; and Mishniee and Tavoy, Griffith. Borneo, Sarawak, 

 Thos. Lobb, Wallace; Banjarmassing, Motley, n. 581. New Guinea, Ilindes. 

 Jobie Island, Barclay. Sumatra, Tcschemacher (same form as Gardner, n. 1072, 

 from Ceylon). Feejee Islands, Milne, n. 193, 155 ; and Solomon's group, n. 522 

 (several of the specimens deeply inciso-serrate). Pig Island, Loiiisiade, il/' Cj//j- 

 i ray {Voy. of I he Rattlesnake). China; Hongkong, C. Wright, Ilarland. Bonin 



