192 ASl'LENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



180. A. (Euasplenium) rarians, Hook, and Gr. ; caudex 

 small erect densely rootino, stipites tufted slender 1-2 inches 

 long slightly paleaceous above, fronds 2-4 inches long mem- 

 branaceous lanceolate l)ipinnate, primary ])iim0e h an inch 

 long on short petioles distant petiolate patent obtuse, pin- 

 nules few on each pinna 1-1 i line long cuneate and irregu- 

 larly incised subtrilobed or 3-lobed and the lobes sharply or 

 subspinulosely incised, sometimes all the pinnules are con- 

 fluent and then the pinnse are pinnatifid, veins variously 

 forked, sori few 2-3 on each pinnule at length confluent, in- 

 volucres pale-brown membranaceous entire sul)athyroid. — 

 Hook, et Grev. Ic. F'lL t. 172. Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. jj. 2G5. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 141. Aspidium varians, IVall. in Hcrh. 

 Hook. Aspl. plebeium, " R. Br." {fide Moore). Aspl. fim- 

 briatum, KzcinLinncea, xviii. jo. 117 (from the Cape). — Vur. 

 leptophyllum (East Indies), Kze. in Linnaa, xxiv. p. 275. 

 Aspl. Ruta, L. ?, Wall. Cat. n. 233. 



Hah. Northern India, frequent, especially on the Himalayas, at elevations of 

 GOOO to 8000 feet, from Mussoorie and Iskardo on the west {Dr. Bacon, n. 37 

 and n. 41, Jacquemont, n. oO and ?t. 7, Dr. Thomson) to Bliolan on the east, 

 Jl'allich, Strachei) and Winterbottom, n. 9 ; Hooker fil. and Thomson (Lachong, 

 9000 feet), IValiich, Cat. n. 2207 (A. parvulum, Wall, fide Moore), Col. Bates, 

 Edfficorth. Nilghiri, Wight, Schmid, Sir F. Adam, Zenker. Ceylon, Thwaites, 

 n. 3139. Cape of Good Hope, Ladt/ Dalhousie, Gueinzius. — A small delicate 

 species, easily recognized, although variable in the size of the pinnae, and in being 

 pinnato-pinnatifid or truly bipinnate ; also the laeinia; of tiie incised pinnules are 

 more or less fringed, and sometimes so elongated and narrow, as to have sug- 

 gested to Kuiize the name J. fimbriatum for the South African species found by 

 Gueinzius. Dr. Greville's beautiful figures in Ic. Filicum, above quoted, well 

 represent the ordinary forms of the plant. 



181. A. (Euasplenium) Fadyeni, Hook.; caudex long- 

 creeping paleaceo-squamose and rooting with long flexuose 

 wiry fibres, stipites numerous but scattered erect slender 2-4 

 or 5 inches long flexuose sparingly paleaceous with ovate 

 brown scales in the lower half, fronds 4-6 inches long broad- 

 lanceolato-ovate membranaceous flaccid bipinnate blackish- 

 green when dry, piniire (16-17) 1-1 2 i"ch long horizontally 

 patent distant lanceolate pinnate in the lower half the supe- 

 rior half pinnatifid, pinnules 3-5 small 2-3 lines long petio- 

 lulate distant obovato-subrhondjoid ol)tuse obtusely sublo- 

 bato-dentate scarcely and rarely subauricled, the lobes of 

 the pinnatifid portion rounded obtuse obsoletely dentate, 

 veins forked once or twice extending to the margin oblique, 

 sori short oblong few on each fertile pinimle small oblong, 



