168 ASPI,KMUM, § EUASPLEMUM. 



ovate cuneatc, rhizome thick scaly bearing scattered fronds, 

 scales lanceolate loiig-acuniinate entire minutely reticulated 

 {rete tenuisslmo), sori approximate indusium large, capsules 

 ovate, annulus of from 18-20 joints, pedicel short, spores 

 ovok\."—Fce, Gen. FiL p. 198. t. 5 A. f. 3 (two pinnules). 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 159. 



Hab. liourhon, De Monthrison. " A Tern bordering iii)on .4. nigrescens, Kze." 

 — A. nu/rescens, Kze., is certainly related to A. furcntitm, Tld)., and, indeed, is 

 considered by Mettenius a synonym to that species. It may be presumed that 

 the place of the present is near to that polymori)hous plant. 



141. A. (Euasplenium) denticulatum, Bl. ; "frond bipin- 

 natifid coriaceous, pinnee petiolate small ovate deeply tri- 

 l)artite or pinnatifid, segments cuneato-oblong obtuse obso- 

 letely denticulate at the apex paleaceo-hirsute at the costa 

 beneath."— i^/. En. FiL Jav. p. 186. Metten. Asplen. p. 159. 



Hab. Mount Cede, Java, Blume, who compares it with his Aspl. tripartitum, 

 which Mettenius refers to Aspl. furcatum. 



Next to this, and probably of tiiis section, Mettenius places Aspl. blepharophoron, 

 Bertol. Act. Bonon. iv. p. 443, of Guatemala, which is quite unknown to me. 



142. A. (Euasplenium) splendens, Kze.; "frond ovate acu- 

 minate bipinnate, pinnec lanceolato-acuminate alternate re- 

 mote petiolate patulous, lower pinnules petiolate rhombeo- 

 ovate their base cuneate rounded at the apex crenulato- 

 dentate sublobate superior ones elongate incised, all sessile 

 veined above shining and glabrous, beneath sparingly nigro- 

 ])aleaceous, sori irregular, stipes at the base and rachis 

 paleaceous." — Kze. in Linnceu, x. p. 516. Melten. Asplen. 

 p. 158. Pappe and Raws. Syn. FiL Afr. Austr. p. 21. — " Var. 

 ^ elongatum ; pinnules all elongate inciso-dentate." — Kze. Lc. 

 Metten. L c. 



Hab. S. Africa ; Philipstown and Katriver, in woody mountains, Ecklon. Om- 

 samubo and Omsamcaba, Drege. Natal, Plant.—'' Differs from Aspl. ciaipatum, 

 Lam., in the ovate outline of the frond, in the broader, shining pinna, in the 

 stipes and rachis beneath being paleaceous, in the sori occupying the base of the 

 j)innules." I possess no authentic specimen of this save the ra/'. 3. and I do not 

 see how that differs from a common form of A. cunea/um. Kunze's next species, 

 1. c, is his A. cuneaiutn, of the Cape, which is both by Mettenius and Moore re- 

 ferred to Aspl. pulchrum, P.-Thouars, but by me to a compound state of Aspl. 

 erectum (see p. 127). 



143. A. (Euasplenium) cuneatum, Lam. ; caudex rather 

 stout repent clothed at the apex with pale-brown subulate 

 sericeous scales, stipites aggregated from a span to a foot 

 long lurid-brown usually quite free from scales, fronds 1-1 \ 

 foot long ovato-lanceolate membranaceous opaque dull-green 



