166 ASPr.KXTUM, ^ KUASPr,K\IUM. 



iii. p. 1G20. Siin. FU. p. 83. Broivn, Prodr. p. 150. Moore, 

 Ind. FU. p. 155.' A. Canariense, JVilld. Sp. PI. v. p. 339. JFc/jh, 

 Plant. Canar. 440. t. 251 (less compound form, as are all 

 the specimens from the W. African ishuuls). A. geminaria, 

 Bory. A. strictum, i^ory {Schlecht.). A. Mascariense, Z)^^'!'. 

 A. nigricans, A'^e. A. tripartitum, Bl., and A. falcatum, var. 

 abbreviatum {Jide Mett.). A. cuneatum, Hook, et Grcv. t. 

 189 (small specimen). A. laceratum, Desv. Mem. Linn. Soc. 

 vi. jK 278 {jide Moore). A. hirsutum, Heyne, in JFalL Cut. 

 n. 212. A. Mysurense, Roth, in Wall. Cat. n. 213. A. 

 cicutarium, Roxb. Crypt. PL p. 38 [fide Moore). Tarachia 

 Browniana, Pr. Epimel. Bot. p. 2G0 (pinnules broad-cuneate 

 more membranaceous) . 



Hal). Tropical and subtropical regions, probably througliout tlie world. S. 

 Africa, Thunbory awA all succeeding travellers; as far east as Macalisberg, .*<'a«- 

 derson. Madagascar, Lyall, Bojer. St. Helena, /. D. Hooker, Lefroy; Bourbon 

 {from Herb. Mia: Par.). Australia, probably rare; N. S. Wales and S. coast 

 of N. Holland, Brown; E. trop. coast, y^//. Cunninyham ; Swan River, Drum- 

 moncl. West African Islands : St. Vincent's, Voyel, Miller, Forbes ; Canary 

 Islands and Madeira, frequent. Abyssinia, Schimper, n. 2C3, G78, and 718 (all 

 these have the pinna; deeply pinnatifid, rarely again pinnate). East Indies ; 

 Ceylon, on mountains, 7-8000 feet elev., Thxcaitfis, and Gardner, 1341 ; and 

 Madras Penins., Wiyht (pinnules broad, resembling A. cuneatum). Nielglierries, 

 Sir F. Adams, Ilohenacher, n. 910 ; Gardner, Schmidt, n. 4G ; G. Thomson (one 

 specimen with the pinnules peculiarly narrow and slender) ; Mergui, Griffith 

 (segments and pinnules very slender; other specimens with fronds 1^ foot long, 

 very stout and coriaceous, exactly resembling the figure of A. insiti/iiini, Brack.) ; 

 Assam, GriJJtth (with broader and more membranaceous ])innules*) ; Java, Blume, 

 two scarcely different states, one marked var. frayrans, the other var. vestitum. 

 Island of Tsus-Sima, Strait of Corea, Jl'i/ford (vars. with broad and very narrow 

 pinnules). Tropical America (a large proportion of these have the more simple form 

 of pinnaB that we find in the specimens from the W. African Islands, and none 



* Several specimens, from India, very compound, having this form, are in my 

 herbarium, marked A. prmnorsum, j3 latum, by Mr. Moore, and by which name 

 they will be quoted, probably, in the Ind. Fil., but they are generally accompanied 

 by specimens of the ordinary forms, and even attached to the same caudex. They 

 almost indicate a passage to A. cuneatum. On the other hand, I possess, from 

 ('eylon, sent by Gardner (n. 1339), two specimens, and evidently considered by 

 him to be the same, and which 1 believe to be so, if not derived from the same 

 caudex, — one having the pinna; as entire as the most entire of Aspl. caudatum, 

 and it might well pass for the same, the other with pinna; broken uj), if I may so 

 say, into cuneate pinnules into that state of furcatum ())ra;morsum, Moore,) 

 which Moore calls " /3 latum." Since the above was in type, I have been favoured 

 with the yet unpublished sheet of Mr. Moore's Ind. Fil., which includes our A. 

 prmmorsum, Sw. (furcatum j3, Moore). The list of synonyms is very copious. 

 Amongst the published names arc A. furcatum. Wall. Cat. 2206, and Schlecht.; 

 A. niyricans, Kze. ; A. Madercnse, Penny, and Kze. ; A. oblusilobum, Ucsv. ; A. 

 dentex, Sol., Kze.; A.filare, I'orsk. ; A. adiantoides, Lam.; A.falsum, Retz. ; A. 

 furcatum, Schk. Fil. 73. t. 79 ; A. Mascariense, Desv., etc. 



