160 ASPLENIUM, § EIASPLEXIUM. 



iu.p. 1715. Sjj.Fil. p. 77- Willd. Sj). PI. y.p. 327. Metten. 

 Fil. Hort. Lips. p. I7. t. 13./. 22. Asplen. p. 155. Moore, 

 Lid. FU.p. 124. Aspl. zamiccfolium, M'illd. Sp.Phw.p. 325. 

 Pr. Reiiq. Hce/ik. i. p. 43 ? Kimze, Fil. Schk. Suppl. p. 103. 

 /. 48 {excellenl) . Loddiyes, Bot. Cab. ix.t. 854. Aspl. cary- 

 otoides, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. I07. Tarachia, Pr. 



Hab. West Indian Islands: Jamaica, Swart z, M'Fadyen, Willes. Cuba, C. 

 Wright, n. 842. Venezuela, Birschel. New Granada, Ocaua, 7,000 feet, Schlim, 

 n. 619. Peru, Province of Chacapoyas, 3fatkm:<i, n. 3298. Tropical Africa, 

 Fernando Po, growing on Oil Palms (/,7a/.s). Barter, Niger Exped. — A well- 

 marked species, with a peculiar habit, and yet no two i)innre are exactly alike. 

 The Fernando Po specimens are less pungent or cuspidate in their laciniae ; but 

 not otherwise different. 



132. A. (Euasplenium) falcatum, Lam. ; caudex repent 

 stout more or less clothed with dark-brown sphagnoid scales, 

 stipites 6-10 inches long lurid-brown, and as well as the 

 rachis deciduously villoso-paleaceous, fronds 8-10 inches to 

 2 feet long subcoriaceous ovato- lanceolate pinnate, pinnae 

 horizontal rather long-pctiolate 4-6 inches and more long 

 from a broad obliquely cuneate base i-| of an inch broad 

 lanceolate much and often finely caudato-acuminate lobato- 

 pinnatifid the segments pointing ui)wards, superior base the 

 broadest subauricled general acute and as well as other of the 

 inferior lobes serrated, inferior base excised, towards the apex 

 the lobes are reduced to rather large remote serratures, veins 

 approximate erecto-patent with forked branches, sori long- 

 linear numerous diverging from near the costa in the direc- 

 tion of the veins to near the margin giving a striated appear- 

 ance to the pinnae, involucres narrow firm-membranaceous. — 

 Lam, Encycl. ii. p. 306. Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 77. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 V. p. 325. Br. Prodr. p. 180. Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 173. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 156. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 128. Endl. 

 Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 9. Brack. Fil. U. St. EaipL Exp. p. 157. 

 t. 22. f. 1 (called var. attenuatum, but it is a very good repre- 

 sentation of an ordinary form). Aspl. polyodon, Forst. 

 Prodr. p. 80. Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 77 imd 263. Hook. Fil. FL 

 N. Zeal. ii. p. 34. Lowe, Nat. Hist, of Ferns, v. t. 39 B. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 156. Aspl. zamiacfolium, Pr. Reliq. Hank. 

 i. p. 43 ? and Tarachia Htenkeana, Pr. Epiin. Bot. p. 76 

 {Moore). Aspl. cultratum. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 317. 

 — Filix non ramosa Zeylanica, etc., Burni. Zeyl. p. 47- t. 43 

 (a rough figure, but very accurate). — Var. prmum, Moore, 

 Lnd. Fit. p. 1 29 (fronds stouter, pinnre thicker, sori shorter. 



