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Isles, C. Wright. Assam, Siinom. Cochin, Ja/msfon. Ceylon, Mrs. General 

 Walker (pinna; long, caudate, narrow, petioles two lines long), Gardner, n. 1072 

 (small i)innie, ovato-lanccolate, racliis rooting and proliferous at the summit). — 

 Swartz has well described this species from Mauritius specimens, where, however, 

 judging from the few I have received from thence, it does not appear to he so 

 plentiful as in the more intratropical Malay and Pacific Islands : and yet Brack- 

 enridge does not seem to have met with it. To say that it is a variable species is 

 saying nothing Tuore than what is common to most Ferns. My finest specimens 

 from Borneo (Motlei/) have pinnsu nearly 7 inches long and 21 to 3i inclies wide, 

 while others have pinna; 1-2 inches long and I to f of an inch wide : and yet 

 the species is easily recognized by the generally undivided, rarely 3-cleft or 3-fid, 

 pinnjc, their peculiarly firm and hard, yet scarcely coriaceous texture, copious 

 veins, and numerous, much elongated, linear, very narrow sori, radiating as it were 

 from the costa towards the margin, sometimes occujjying the whole length of the 

 veins. 



130. A. (Euasplenium) Neeaimm, Kze. ; "fion3 ovate pin- 

 nate, pinnae subtrijugate nearly opposite trapezio-ovate or 

 lanceolate serrated acute subauricled, auricle serrulate entire 

 at the cuneate base decurrent into a short petiole beneath 

 and upon the margined rachis paleaceous, sori very long and 

 parallel." A're. Annal. Pteridoyr. p. 22. 2Ietten. Asplen. p. 

 154. Bturm, En. Fit. Chil. p. 28. Gtnj, FL Chil. \\. p. 500. 



Hah. " Island of Chiloe, S. Chili, Nee, in Herb. De Cand. et Kze." — I cannot hut 

 fear there is some error in the locality of this plant, which, Kunze says, " ad A. 

 Finlaysonianum, Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 13G (nunc Hemidicti/on Ilookerianum, 

 Moore) accedit ; quod vero pinnis subquinque integerrimis acuminatis utrinque 

 glabris distinguitur." That Asplenioid plant, however, and its allies, with the " sori 

 longissimi," are quite tropical and Malayan plants, notlikely to inhabit a region so 

 far south as Chiloe. Nor does any of the many Chilian travellers, since the time 

 of Nee, appear to have detected it. Mettenius suggests that Nee's plant maybe 

 the same as A. o,iyplnjllum. Wall. (A. macrophyllum, Sw. and of us), and this 

 may very well be if we allow of an error in the given locality of the plant. 



1.31. A. (Euasplenium) dimidiatum, Svv. ; caudex short 

 thick inclined densely rooting paleaceous above with dark- 

 brown almost black subulate scales, stipites 4-6 aggregated a 

 span to a foot high dark lurid-brown and as well as the rachis 

 more or less paleaceous, frond a span to a foot long and 

 more ovato-oblong acuminate firm-coriaceous pinnate, pinnte 

 petiolate erecto-patent 12-21 trapezio-oblong or subovate 

 obliquely cuneate at the base, superior base rounded scarcely 

 subauricled, inferior excised, serrated irregularly and some- 

 times very deeply incised generally unequally bifid, the seg- 

 ments very acute and pungent superior margin irregularly and 

 pungently serrate, no distinct costa, veins copious com])act 

 radiating several times forked, sori also radiating linear-elon- 

 gate, involucre narrow firm-membranaceous opening towards 

 the centre or costal vein of the pinna. — Sw. FL Lid. Occ. 



