236 ASPLKNIUM, § EUDIPLAZIfM. 



rigiduni, JFall. MS. in Hook. Herb. Scolopendrium duljium, 

 Don, Prodr. p. 9. 



Hab. Japan, Thunberg, Goring. Aniakerima Island, C. Wright ; and Tsus 

 Sima, Gulf of Corea, Wilford. Loochoo Islands; Formosa, Wil/ord. Hong- 

 kong, Dr. Lorraine, Hance, JIarland, Wilford. East Indies : Nepal, Wallich. 

 . Khasya Hills (one specimen deeply forked at the apex), Simon.i. Numklow, 

 Hook. fil. and Thomson. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1335, Thivaites. — This has about 

 equal claim to rank either as Euasplenium or Diplazitim. Sometimes the two 

 kinds of sori are mixed on one frond, at other times they are uniformly all one or 

 the other. 



245. A. (Eudiplazium) sulsciratum, Bl. ; caudex "creep- 

 ing elongated," fronds membranaceous H foot long an inch 

 to an inch and a half wide glabrous and satiny elongato- 

 oblong lanceolate sharply acuminate moderately attenuated 

 below obtuse or acute at the base, towards the middle si- 

 huato-crenate coarsely dentato-serrated nearer the apex, costa 

 slender firm prominent beneath, veins fascicled horizontal or 

 nearly so, one to three of the exterior branches soriferous, sori 

 distant often curved, involucres frequently diplazioid, narrow- 

 linear occupying about two-thirds of the space between the 

 costa and margin, stipes 1-2 inches long slender terete. 

 (Tab. CLXIV. B.)—Bl. En. p. 174. Mette7i. Asplen. p. 90. 



Hab. Java, Blume, Thos. Lobb. — A distinct species, yet nearly allied to the 

 preceding, and I regret that my figure cannot be accompanied by the caudex, 

 which none of my specimens possesses. The veins are fasciculate and transverse 

 (horizontal) ; at the origin from the costae are three branches, two outer ones un- 

 divided, and one or other or both of these bear a sorus ; the middle branch is 

 once or twice forked ; if once forked, it is sterile, if twice forked, the superior 

 branch is fertile : but in all cases a middle forked branch is always sterile -. hence 

 the sori are far apart. It is remarkable that neither Blume nor Mettenius notice 

 the diplazioid sori. 



246. A. (Eudiplazium) /oMcAo/9%//?«», Kze. ; "frond mem- 

 branaceous glabrous linear-lanceolate acuminate, shortly cu- 

 neate or obtuse at the base, towards the apex especially cre- 

 nato-dentate, costa slender, veins repeatedly forked, sori 

 abbreviated slightly curved subirregular, stipes short, rhi- 

 zome obliquely descending rooting and as well as the base of 

 the stipes fusco-paleaceous." Diplazium, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. 

 vi. p. 192 {not in Linnaa, xiii. p. 141). Asplemxim, Met ten. 

 Asplen. p. 161. " D. Sundense, Hassk. Cat. PL" 



Hab. Java, Zollinger, n. 3092 and 1508 (and Goring and Hasskarl, according 

 to Mettenius). — The above character so well describes the Anpl. (I)iplaz.) suh- 

 serratam of Blume (a species acknowledged to be unknown to Kimze), that I 

 cannot but think the two plants are identical. Kunze has probably been misled 

 by the diplazioid sori of A. nubserratum not having been described by Blume. 



