191 ASPLEXIUM, § EUASn-EXlUM. 



on the disc or pinnule oblong generally on a forked nerve and 

 the membranous involucres open towards each other. — Don, 

 Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 8. Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. p. 265. Metten. 

 AspJen. p. 128. Honk. 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t. 29. Aspl. con- 

 cinnunij Wall. Cat. n. 21G. 



Hab. India; Nepal, Wallich. Neilglierries, Sir F. Adam, ll'U/ht, Herb. Propr. 

 V. 104, Gardner, Scfnnid. Sikkim-liimalaya, //ooX-. fl. and Thomson. Myriinj 

 and Mishmee, and Khasya, Griffith. Ceylon, Gardner, v. 10/9, T/avaites {e\cv. 

 7000 feet), ti. 3628. — An elegant, very compound species, allied to A.cicutarium, 

 yet very distinct, especially in the very acute ai)iccs of the segments of the pin- 

 nules, and ill the involucres of the sori never opening at or near the margin. 



184. A. (Euasplenium) Hookerianum, Colens. ; lax flexuose, 

 caudex a short oblong fibrous-rooting rhizome paleaceous at 

 the summit with subulate scales, stipites tufted 1-3 or 4 

 inches long pale l)rown deciduously setoso-squamose, frond 

 2-8 inches long oblong and pinnate or ovate and Inpinnate 

 subnicmljranaceous, pinnre l-'2 inches long-petioled, pinnules 

 also long-petiolulate rhonibeo-subrotund 2-4 lines long sub- 

 lobate and dentate rarely again subpinnate or pinnatifid, 

 veins subflabellate dichotomous, sori .3-5 oblong on the disc 

 of the pinnules, involucre membranaceous, rachis and pe- 

 tioles very slender. — Colens. in Tasm. Journ. of Nat. Science, 

 ii. p. 169. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 136 {excl. syn. A. Colensoi). 

 Aspl. adiantoides, Raoul, Ann. Sc. A^at. v, p. 115, 1844, and 

 Choix des PI. N. Zel. p. 10. /. 1 {not Raddi). A. adianto- 

 ides, for. minus, Hook. fil. in Ic. Plant, t. 983; var. Hookeri- 

 anum, Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 35 (excl. syn. A. Colensoi). 

 A. Ilaouli, vor. minus, Metten. Asplen. p. 118. 



Hal). Northern and Middle Islands of New Zealand, J. Cunningham, Colenso, 

 Hook, fl., Ralph. Banks's Peninsula, Raoid, Dr. Li/all. — Three supposed states 

 of this species are described by Dr. Hooker in the ' Icones Plantaruni,' under the 

 name of J. adiaKtoidi>.<i of Raoul: 1, var. minus, the orip:inal adiantoides of that 

 author; 2, var. Richardi ; and 3, var. Colensoi; all natives of New Zealand. I 

 am disposed to retain the present as a good species, under the name given to it by 

 its first describer. The two others, I think, may be united as one species under 

 Dr. Hooker's name of A. Richardi (see our n. 188). 



185. A. (Euasplenium) repens, Hook.; very small, caudex 

 long filiform creeping upon the trees and bushes patent 

 sparsely hirsuto-tomentose, fronds numerous sparse mem- 

 branaceous tender yet subsucculent green very shortly pe- 

 tiolate (petioles 1-2 lines extremely slender) 1-2 inches 

 long ovato-lanceolate hi- rarely subtripinnate, ])innce 2 lines 

 long petioled, pinnules divaricato-patent about a line long 

 ])almato-cuneate tapering into a petiole subdigitato-laciniate 



