216 ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



gpncrally viviparous. I possess, however, a nuich less divided form from Bouri)on, 

 with broader segments, which may prove distinct. 



213. A. (Euasplenium) scandens, J. Sm. ; caudex thicker 

 than a crovv's-quill long creeping flexuose branched sparingly 

 rooting paleaceous with small scales in the younger portions, 

 stipites scattered very short almost none, fronds from 1-2 

 feet or more long broad oblong-lanceolate tapering much at 

 the base subcoriaceo-membranaccous dark olive-green 3-4- 

 pinnate, primary pinnre horizontal 3-4 inches long broad- 

 lanceolate sessile numerous but rather distant inferior ones 

 gradually smaller deflexed extending to the base of the stipes, 

 secondary pinnre about an inch long shortly petiolate, ulti- 

 mate pinnules 4-5 lines long narrow-linear the lower superior 

 ones forked or trifid the rest simj^le all acute, fertile ones a 

 little broader and somewhat hatchet-shaped contracted into a 

 beak towards the apex, vein central that of the fertile pinna 

 or segment near the margin, sori marginal oblong, involucre 

 firm submembranaceous brownish, main rachis terete strict 

 lurid-brown, partial rachises compressed subalate. — J. Sm. in 

 Hook. Journ. of Bat. m. jJ- 408 [name only). Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 108. Moore, IncL Ft/, p. 1G5. Hook. 2nd Cent, of Ferjis, 

 t.37. 



Ilab. Philippine Islands, Leyte, Cuming, n. 297. New Guinea, Hinds. — A 

 peculiar and well-marked species. 



214. A. (Euasplenium) feridacevm, Moore ; stipes 14 inches 

 long stout pale brown sulcate in front, frond 18 inches supra- 

 decompound (4-5-pinnate) bright green membranaceous del- 

 toideo-ovate acuminate, primary pinn£E numerous but rather 

 distant below horizontal the inferior G-8 inches long petiolate 

 broad ovate acuminate gradually smaller upw;irds, secondary 

 pinnae 3 inches long ultimate pinna; short scarcely minute 

 a line long narrow lincar-spathulate bi-trifid all acute the 

 segments mono- rarely disorous, vein central indistinct, sorus 

 very small scarcely visible to the naked eye near the margin, 

 involucre greenish submembranaceous, primary and secon- 

 dary rachises terete stramineous glossy, ultimate very narrow 

 linear compressed green. — Hook. 2nd Cent, of Ferns, t. 38. 

 Moore, MS. in Herb. A^ostr. and in Ind. Fil. p. 130 {name 

 only, no description). 



Hab. New Granada, Ilartwcy, v. 1519, and Quito, Jameson, in Ilprh. Nostr. — 

 A very distinct and elegant, and hitherto nndescribed, s])ecies, remarkable for tlie 

 very compound, or rather decompound, finely cut pinna?, and the terete primary 

 and secondary rachises stramineous and glossy. 



