234 ASPLENIUM, 



Hab. Columbia, Merida, Moritz, n. 289 (Klotzsch, in Herb. Nostr.). Mettenius 

 adds: "Funck and Schlim, n. 605, n. 1225, n. 958, and Triana, n. 32 ;" and I 

 may add from my herbarium, as quite according with Klotzsch 's original speci- 

 men : New Granada, Linden,n. 503, 533,fl«rf 1016. Jamaica, Purdie. Ecuador, 

 Jameson. Bogota, Holton, n. 42. — The involucres are brown, delicate, and very 

 fragile, quite bullate, l)ursting very irregularly, exactly as in Allantodia, Br. 

 Indeed, some of the East Indian forms of Aspl. australe, Br., are scarcely distin- 

 guishable from this. It is to be regretted that authors of the many new species 

 of this compound group of Eudiplazium, give no figures, nor offer any remarks on 

 the attinitics of their species. 



243. A. (Athyrium) fimbriatum, Hook.; caudex?, stipes 

 stout darkish -brown glossy 1 foot and more long copiously 

 paleaceous most so towards the base with large glossy taAviiy 

 lanceolato-subulate scales, frond ample 2-3 feet long ovate 

 or subdeltoid acuminate firm-coriaceous subpolysticlioid 4- 

 pinnate, primary pimiro petiolate (as are the secondary and 

 tertiary ones) 6-12 inches long distant from a broad base 

 lanceolate much acuminate, secondary ones also distant of 

 the same shape but not acuminate 1-1 h inch long numerous, 

 ultimate pinnules ovato-lanceolate \ of an inch long superior 

 basal one the largest acute all pinnatifid wdth acute lobes 

 auricled at the superior base, terminal ones subconfluent, sori 

 2-5 on each pinnule broad-oblong or in age almost globose 

 very prominent and copious, involucre brown membranaceous 

 broad generally crescent-shaped or subhippocrepiform fim- 

 briated extremely convex soon forced back by sori, rachises 

 all pale-brown glossy more or less flexuose. — Aspidium fim- 

 briatum, JJ^a//. Cat. n. 339; 72ot Athyrium foliolosum, Moore, 

 Ind. Fil. p. 92. — An Aspl. decipiens, Metten. Asplen. p. 195. 

 /. 6. /. 9, 10 ? 



Ilab. Nepal, Kumaon, Wallich; sent to the museum of the India House in 1823, 

 under the name '■'■ Aspid. 1 {Nejyhrod. 1) fimbriatum, Wall., an Ilemitellce generis, 

 R. Br. ?," Strachey and Winterbottom. Above Simla, Col. Bates. Sikkim, elev. 

 8-9000 feet, Hook. fil. and Thomson.— k very fine As])lenioid Fern, with quite the 

 sori and involucres of the two preceding Asplenia, and the habit of a very compound 

 Poli/stichii/tt. Dr. Wallich distributed more than one or two species under the 

 name of "foliolosum," but I have no specimens of this so named by him. 



Kunzc gives ample specific characters and some remarks on the following 

 Asplenioid Ferns from Java, which he refers to Mr. Brown's genus Allan- 

 todia, but so variable are the individuals of this group, that many species 

 may be constructed out of one if partial or fragmentary specimens are selected ; 

 au(l even with entire and i)erfect fronds it is hardly possible to make the descrip- 

 tions intelligible without figures upon a large scale. I must content myself with 

 a reference to these, which Mettenius places among the Diplazioid Asplenia, 

 Moore with true Asplenia. 



A. (AWantoAia.) paludosutn, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 191. Mount Gcde. "Zippcll. 

 n. 352 Z." — " Ex affiiiitate A. axillaris, Br." — It will i)e seen that I have referred 

 some East Indian Ferns of this group to Aspl. anstrale. 



