ASPLENIUM, § EUDIPLAZIUM. 241 



scaly at the summit, stipites stout a foot and more long pale 

 brown and as well as the stout rachis very paleaceous with 

 dark brown curly lanceolate very long acuminate scales, 

 fronds broad-oblong acuminated submembranaceous bright 

 green pinnated, pinna3 numerous superior ones rather sud- 

 denly smaller and confluent into a large deltoideo-acuminate 

 terminal pinna deeply lobed at the base entire in the upper 

 half, pinucB horizontal approximate sessile (except the lowest 

 ones) 6-7 inches long from a broad rather unequally trun- 

 cated base oblong acuminate H-2 inches wide moderately 

 serrated at the apex the rest suljsinuate or slightly and un- 

 equally lobed rarely pinnatifid at the base, veins horizontal in 

 fascicles subdichotomously pinnated outer or inferior brandies 

 mostly soriferous, sori short near the costa never extending 

 more than halfway to the margin diplazioid or asplenoid. — 

 Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 75. t. 12. /. 3, 4. Asplen. j). 173. 

 Kze. Bot. Zeit. iii. ^j. 285. Linmea, p. 309. 



Hab. South America; Venezuela, Fendler, n. 152 and 153; Lmden, n. 76, 

 n. 182, »i. 554 (pinnae very broad and cordate at the base). Ocaua, Schlitn, n. 616, 

 Moritz, n. 276 (with a broad lolie at the inferior base of the pinn;c). Jamaica, 

 M'Fadyen, Purclie, jnison. — Specimens from the above locaHties accord well with 

 the description and figures of Mettenius rather than with the character of Kunze ; 

 and I fear the plant will prove not to be specifically distinct from the following, 

 jiispL yrayidifoUum, Sw. 



257. A. (Eudiplazium) grandifoJium, Sw. ; caudex erect 

 scaly at the summit, stipites erect stout a foot or more long 

 blackish-brown in my specimens epaieaceous, fronds ample 

 I5-3 feet long ovato-oblong subcoriaceo-membranaceous pin- 

 nated pinnatifid at the apex and terminating in a nearly entire 

 acumen, pinnae horizontally patent petiolated below 4-G inches 

 long 1-H inch broad from a subtruncato-cuneated base ob- 

 long often shghtly falcate acuminated entire or more or less 

 serrated towards the apex rarely subsinuato-lobate, veins ra- 

 ther distant nearly horizontal subfasciculately pinnated, the 

 branches parallel outer and inferior ones soriferous, sori 

 rather short \ an inch or less long mostly upon the two 

 outer and inferior branches of tlie fascicle nearer the costa 

 than the margin diplazioid and asplenioid, involucres when 

 young broad and closely adpressed dark brown in the centre 

 paler at the margin, rachis epaieaceous. — Sw. Prodr. p. 130. 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 179- t. 5. y. 3 {fragment of a pinna). 

 Diplazium, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 91. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 113. 

 /. 4. /. 3. Hernionitis, Sm. Sw. Fl. hid. Occ. iii. p. 1(505. 



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