162 ASPLENIUM 



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134. A. (Euasplenium) erosuvi, L. ; caudex short horizontal 

 paleaceous with glossy subulate blackish scales, stipites a 

 span to a foot high lurid-brown, fronds 1-1^ foot long ovato- 

 lanceolate acuminated subcoriaceous pinnated ])innatifid at 

 the apex 2-5 inches long, pinna; petiolate patent from abroad 

 obliquely cuncate base lanceolate or subovato-lanceolate acu- 

 minate subfalcate striated, superior base subtruncate rarely 

 auricled, inferior base excised rarely subequally (not deeply) 

 lobed with the lobes serrated generally very unequally inciso- 

 serrated most deeply so towards the superior base, veins erecto- 

 patent variously forked, sori linear oblique elongated extend- 

 ing almost from the costa to the margin, in the pinnatifid 

 apex they are parallel with the costa, involucre firm-meni- 

 branaceous. (Tab. CXCVIlI.)—jLm/z. S>. P/. ;^. 1539. Siv. 

 Sijn. Fil. p. 78. IVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 327. Metten. Asplen. p. 157- 

 Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 127- Aspl. falcatum, Sw. FI. Iiid. Occ. iii. 

 p. 1618 (omitting the Ceylon locality). Tarachia, Pi'. 



Hab. "West Indies, Swartz ; Jamaica, M'Fadyen, March, n. 330 and 122; 

 Wihion, n. 86 ; Portland Gap, Purdie (i)inna; 5-6 inches long, serratures short 

 and ratlier obtuse) ; Manchester, Purdie (pinna; ovato-lanccolate, rather deeply 

 l)ut regularly lohato-pinnatifid, the lobes truncate, incised). Cuha., Linden, n.2^\7 

 (one specimen with most of the pinnae trifid, lateral lobes the shortest), C. TJ'right, 

 n. 9,A?,. — As A. falcatum, Lam., is considered peculiar to tropical countries of the 

 Old World, this may be looked ujwn as its representative in the New. It has, 

 indeed, been confounded with J. falcatum by Swartz, and probably others, and 

 its character as a species mainly rests u])on the usually more entire margins of 

 the pinna: : it is seldom so truly lobato-pinuatifid. At present it is only known in 

 the West Indian Islands. 



135. A. {Knasplemum) paleaccmm, Br.; caudex small com- 

 pact clothed with densely copious radicles paleaceous above 

 with subsphagneous lanceolate scales with long fringed mar- 

 gins mixed with smaller kinds, stipites tufted scarcely more 

 than an inch high and as well as the rachis shaggy with per- 

 sistent villose patent scales, fronds firm-stdjcoriaceous dark 

 villous with soft dark-coloured hairs beneath green paler on 

 the under side 6-10 inches long decumbent flexuose pinnated, 

 pinnaj strongly striated 4-5 lines long suljpetiolate patent 

 numerous approximate obliquely rhomboidal ovate sublobate 

 obtuse unequally and rather sharply spinuloso-serrated, su- 

 perior base truncated and forming a toothed lobe or auricle, 

 terminal pinna subi)innatifid, or more generally the rachis is 

 proliferous, veins flal^eliate approximate forked (no distinct 

 costa), sori linear chiefly occujjying the disk of the pinna in 

 two rows, involucres membranaceous i)ale opening towards 



