ASPLENIUM, § ATIIYRIUM. 221 



220. A. (Atliyrium) oxyphyllum. Hook. ; caudex very 

 stout J -2 inches in diameter ascending clothed with nume- 

 rous persistent stipites of former years villous rather than 

 paleaceous at the sunnnit with very long (ij of an inch) erect 

 subflexuose ferruginous scales, stipites clustered 4 inches to 

 a foot long stramineous glossy below shaggy with the same 

 scales as crown the caudex, fronds 6-1 S inches long from 

 broad-lanceolate to subdeltoideo-ovate subcoriaceous gene- 

 rally much acuminated hi- rarely tri-pinnate, primary pinna) 

 3-8 inches in length often flexuose from a broad base lan- 

 ceolate sometimes spinulose on the costa above generally 

 much acuminated and sharply serrated only at the apex, 

 pinnules from an oblique cuneated Ijase tapering into a dis- 

 tinct petiolule ovato-lanceolate acute lobato-pinnatifid at the 

 margin auricled at the superior base serrated towards the 

 apex, the lu])es usually acute, sometimes the pinnules are 

 again pinnated, veins pinnated, sori in two rows one on each 

 veinlet near the middle, varying much in size rarely straight 

 mostly curved or crescent-shaped, involucres often hippocre- 

 piform brown membranaceous erose or fringed at the margin 

 sometimes deciduous. — Polypodium oxyphyllum, WaU. Cat. 

 p. 324<. Athyrium, Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 126. Aspidium 

 eburneum, Wall. Cat. p- 389 (pinnae and pinnules more 

 slender). Asplenium, J. Sm. Cat. Cult. Ferns, 21- 6. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 194. Lastrea, J. Sm. Cat. Cult. Ferns, p. 4.7. 

 Aspidium squarrosura, JVall. Cat. n. 356, and in Herb. Nostr. 

 (Moore refers this to his Atliyi'ium foliolosmn) . Polypodium 

 drepanopterum, Kze. in Linncea, xxiii. p. 318. Aspidium, 

 Braun, Ind. Sem. Berol. 1856. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 93. 

 t. 19.y'. 1-4 [very (jood). 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich. Assam, Khasya, and Eastern Himalaya, Griffith (and 

 Bhotan), Hook. fil. and Thomson. — A variable species, it must be confessed, re- 

 markable for tbe very copious, rich, tawny, or long, slender, ferruginous scales on 

 the caudex and base of the stipes. 



221. A. (Athyrium) selenopteris, Mett. ; "caudex oblique 

 densely paleaceous with rather large ferruginous ovate acu- 

 minated scales, stipes stramineous a foot long sparsely scaly, 

 frond glabrous 1^ foot long ovato-acuminate tripinnate, pri- 

 mary pinnaj remote obliquely patent petiolate 8 lines long 

 lanceolate acuminate, secondary pinnie shortly petiolate the 

 superior base truncate the inferior cuneate trapezio-oblong 

 attenuated at the apex obtuse pinnato-partite, the lowest 

 ones pinnated, pinnules or lower segments incised generally 



