ASPLKNIUM, § EUASPI.KNIIJM. 1 ()5 



nules cuneate bi-trifid, superior basal one (corres):)on(liiig to 

 the auricle in the more entire ])inn8c) large Ijroad ilal)cllit'()rni 

 cristato-laciniate, veins distant forked, sori oblong .5-4 ra- 

 diating in the auricle (or ultimate pinnule) towards the apex 

 arranged nearly parallel with the costa. (Tar. CC. A.) — 

 Var. l/ipimiutinn, pinnte again pinnated in the lower half, 

 l)innules Habellato-cuncate laciniated. Aspl. laciniatum, Don, 

 Prodr. Nep. p. 8. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 139. Aspl. cicspitosum, 

 JFalL Cat. n. 217. Metten. Asp/en. p. 129. Aspl. falcatum, 

 /;. laceratum, Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. p. 2G0 {Moore). — Var. 

 subintegrifoUuin, pinnae lobed or laciniated. — "Var. depau- 

 peratwn, Moore. Aspl. depauperatum. Wall. Cat. p. 234." 

 {Moore.) 



Ilab. India. Var. subinteyrifoUum. Sikkiin Himalaya, Katong River, /. D. 

 Jloolcer and Thomaon. Dupla Hills, Bhotan, Booth, passing into var. laciniatum. 

 — Var. laciniatum. Nepal and Sylhet, Wallich; Assam and Kliasya, Griffith, 

 Simons, Hooker avd Thomson. — I follow Moore in referring the A. depauperatum 

 of Wallich, of wliich I have no authentic Wallichian specimen, to J. laciniatum, 

 Don. The species is very ])ecidiar and very distinct, varying with simply i)innate 

 and bipinnate fronds, and still more in the shape of the pinn;e and pinnules. 



138. (A. Euasplenium)/)//'^^/^^, Thunb. ; caudex oblique 

 scarcely repent stout clothed above witli copious very slender 

 glossy Ijrown silky hair-like ciliated scales, stipites copious 

 tufted 4 inches to a span long more or less clothed as is the 

 rachis with ferruginous ciliated hair-like scales, fronds a span 

 to a foot and more long ovato-lanceolate acuminate coriaceous 

 rigid mostly bi- rarely tri-pinnate dark-green and glabrous 

 above pale and often villous beneath, pinnoe and pinnules 

 more or less patent, primary ones petiolate secondary ones 

 more or less decurrent generally narrow- cuneate or subspa- 

 thulate or rhomboidal truncated or rounded or acuminated, 

 at the apex bi-trifid or bi-tripartite the apices dentate or 

 variously and often very irregularly incised, veins conspicuous 

 compact once or more forked erect (giving a striated appear- 

 ance to the pinnee) linear-elongate parallel with the central 

 vein (there is no distinct costa) chiedy on the lower half of 

 the i)innule, involucre membranaceous very narrow. — Thunb. 

 Prodr. FL Cap. p. 172. Sw. Syti. Fil. p. 83. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 

 p. 340. Schk. Fil. p. 73. t. 79 (pinnules broad and rhomboidal, 

 approaching to A. cwieatum). Aspl. fragrans, Schk. Fil. p. 

 199. t. 130 b. {not Sw.), (apex of a frond only, of the more 

 common form). A. falsum, l\\'lz, Obs. vi. p. 38. A. adian- 

 toides, Lam. {non alior.). A. pr(cmorsum, i>a\ Ft. Ind. Oca. 



