1G4 ASPLENIUM, ^ EUASPLEMUM. 



induced Dr. Wallich to give it the name we have adopted, Ihough evident enough 

 in general, is not always so.* 



(Furcatum-^rrojt/;, continued.) 

 Bi-tripinnate. 

 137. A. (Euasplenium) laciniatum, Don ; caudex thick 

 short ascending densely clothed with blackish falcate ind)ri- 

 cated subulate rigid scales, stipitcs cocspitose 4-G inches 

 brown and as M'ell as the stramineous rachis partially and 

 deciduously scaly compressed, fronds erect a span to a foot 

 long oblong-acuminate subcoriaceous tawny-brown when dry 

 very opaque pinnate the apex narrow pinnatilid, pinnce dis- 

 tinctly petiolate 20-50 horizontal ^ an inch to 1 inch long 

 semiovate or semiovato-lanceolate subfalcate auricled at the 

 superior base excised at the inferior for more than half the 

 length of the pinna lobed and inciso-serrate or again pinnate 

 especially in the lower half the rest laciniato-pinnatifid, pin- 



* The following list of supposed species oi Asplenium (§ Euasplenium) having 

 pinnated fronds, are wholly unknown to nie, and either undescribed or so im- 

 j)erfectly described that it is only in two or three instances they can be referred, 

 and then very doubtfully, to any in this work. It may suffice to give them in 

 this note. 



Aspl. Martensii, Fee, 9me Mem. p. 13 ; Metten. As))Ien. p. 100 {iiot Kze.). 

 Mirador, Oaleotti. A. repanduluni. Mart, et Gal. Fit. Me.v. p. 56 {not Kze.). — 

 Undescribed. Moore refers it to uL salicifoUum. 



A. cultrifolium, var. ? diodon, Kze. in Linncea, xxiii. p. 303. Caracas. — This 

 var., referred doubtfully by Kunzeto A. cultrifolium,\\"iM., is suspected by Met- 

 tenius, who has seen a fragment, to be a var. of A. ahscissum {A.Jirmum of this 

 work). 



A. recurvatum, Don, Prodr. Nep. p. 7. Nepal; "frond linear-lanceolate pin- 

 nate elongated recurved and radicant at the apex, ])innjE trapezoid alternate 

 shortly petiolate striated hairy the superior cleft {cliffissis), bearing sori, stipes 

 and rachis terete hairy." Metten. Asplen.p. 122. Moore, lud. Fit. p. IGO. 



A. lanceolatum, ForsJc. Ft. /Eg. Arab. p. 185. Arabia, Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 86. 

 Metten. Asplen.p. 122. — Moore refers it doubtfully to A. erectum. 



A. polyphylluni, Bert. Act. Bonon. iv. p. 443 {not Mart, et Gal.). Guatemala, 

 Metten. Aspl. p. 122. A. polymeria, Moore, Ltd. Fit. p. 154. 



A. diodon, Fe'e, Gen. Fit.; "fronds pinnate lanceolate glabrous, rachis winged 

 ahove, pinna; oval cuncate auricled above emarginate at the base obtuse deeply 

 dentato-crenate, teeth often bidentate, sori ovoideo-oblong approximate in matu- 

 rity, indusiuni whitish narrow, sporangia ovate, annulus 18-20-articulate, spores 

 short obliquely ovoid. Philippines, Cuminff." Habit of Aspl. reyulare, Sw. (A. 

 erectum). Metten. Asplen.p. 122. Moore, Ind.p. 125. 



A. pyramidatum, Desi\ Mem. Linn. Soc. y'l.p. 271. Tristan d'Acunha. 3Ietten. 

 Aspl. p. 122. Moore, Ind.p. 159. 



A. Miradorense, Liebm. Fit. Mcx. p. 91. Mexico. Metten. Asplen. p. 122. 

 Moore, Lid. Fil. p. 146. — May it not be A. erectum? 



A. sHosum, Desv. Berl. Mag. \. p. 322 {not Pr.). Madagascar. Mel ten. A.yjl. 

 p. 136. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 168.— Said to be allied to //. ebenenm, Init witii the 

 rachis setose. 



