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nules or lobes obovate the former tapering at the more or less 

 obHque cuneate base so as to be spathulate always more or 

 less serrated towards the apex, ultimate ones more or less 

 confluent into an acuminated serrated apex, intermediate 

 ones frequently decurrent so as to form a winged rachis, 

 veins erecto-patent flabellate conspicuous and with the long 

 linear sori giving a striated appearance to the pinnules, in- 

 volucres firm-membranaceous narrow. — /. Sm. in Hook. Jour)/,, 

 of Bot. iii. p. 408 {name only). Moore, hid. Fil. p. 139. A. 

 nitidum, Metten. Asplen. p. 1G2. Aspl. insititium, Brack. Fil. 

 U. S. Expl. Exp. 161. t. 22. f. 2. Metten. Asplen. p. 159. 



llab. East Indies and Pacific Islands. Luzon, Cuming, n. 210. Borneo, 

 Wallace, Thou. Lohh, at the Lobong River. Sandwich Islands, Douglas, n. -14 

 and 45; Brackenridge, in forests; and island of Aneiteuin. CeyJon, Mrs. Genl. 

 ll'alker, Gideon Thomson, on Newera Ellia (Distrib. of Herb. lad. Or. of Hook, 

 fil. et Thomson, n. 170). — This plant has been first described and well figured by 

 Brackenridge, from the Sandwich Islands, but it has been long in my herljarium 

 from the same islands gathered by Douglas, and from other localities by other 

 collectors, and placed doubtfully with Aspl. cuneatum, from which, however, I 

 am disposed to consider it truly distinct, but, like so many other Ferns, it is 

 liable to consideral)le variations, as will be easily seen if one has tolerably 

 numerous suites of specimens. The figure in question represents neither of the 

 extremes of these varieties. Some of our specimens from Douglas have the 

 superior pinna; as entire as in the ordinary state of Aspl. hirtum, Kaulf. ; the 

 lower ones deeply lobed with obovate lobes, but the sinuses not extending to the 

 rachises, — not pinnated. Cuming's plant has the superior pinna; entire, the in- 

 ferior ones pinnate, the rest of our specimens are almost entirely bipinnate with 

 obovato-spathulate pinnules. In one specimen from Borneo the pinnules are 

 deeply lobed, and even pinnatifid. 



146. A. (Euasplenium) gracile, Fee ; " fronds pinnate 

 glabrous shortly stipitate, rhizome slender creeping, pinnte 

 auricled above cuneate dentato-incised at the margin the 

 teeth obtuse, rachis compressed, sori elongated few linear, 

 capsules shortly pedicellate, annulus 14-16-articulate, spores 

 ovoid." — Fee, Gen. FiU pp. 191 and 198. ']me Mem. Foug. 

 t. 27./ 1. Metten. Aspl. jJ. 117- Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 135. 



Hab. Philippine Islands, without No., Cuming. — About four inches high. 

 " Peut-ctre est-ce la quelque petite forme d'une espece ordinairement plus 

 grande ?" It has quite the appearance of a very young plant of Aspl. cuneatum, 

 " n'oflfrant aucune particularite." 



147. A. (Euasplenium) laserpitiifolium. Lam. ; caudex 

 rather stout subrepent clothed at the extremity with copious 

 satiny ferruginous subulate scales, stipites aggregate 3-4 

 inches to a foot long lurid-brown, fronds a span to .2-3 feet 

 long ovato-lanceolate finely acuminated membranaceous often 

 delicate green 3-4-pinnate the surface opaque, primary pinntc 



