244 ASPLENIUM, § EUDIPLAZIUM. 



Hab. S. America ; Merida, Moritz, 7i. 327 (Klolzsch, in Herb. Nostr.), Caracas, 

 Linden, n. 534 and 1027 (A. rhoifoliuin, Metten.). Ocaua, Schlim, n. 496, elev. 

 4-5000 feet. Cuba, C. Wright, n. 103G (i)iiitipe broad at the base, loliato-pinna- 

 tifid below the middle, and auricled on both sirles). Tropical Africa, Angiama, 

 Barter, in 2nd Niger Exped. n. 83. — If I am correct in referring hither my 

 specimens from the above localities of this species, it is very variable in the 

 margins of the pinnules, yet has a different habit from Aspl. grandifolium, and 

 the pinnae are constantly narrower, with more ))arallel sides, so as to be narrow- 

 oblong and more gradually acuminated. The sori, too, are more numerous, with 

 narrow involucres. Tropical African specimens seem to be identical with the 

 South American, but the sori are longer and more parallel. The slightly lobed 

 margins of the pinna:; in Dr. Klotzsch's sample before me become more pinnatifid 

 in what I have ventured to consider a variety of this. But, indeed, so poly- 

 morphous are tlie pinna; in the diplazioid AKplcnia, tliat one may well be allowed 

 to plead ignorance of the precise limits of the species. 



2G2. A. (Eudiplazium) Lechleri, Mett. ; stipes elongated 

 (2-3 feet) stout subulato-squamose at the l)ase black or pale 

 brown, frond am])le (.5 feet and more long) coriaceous pin- 

 nate, pinnoe a foot and more long 2^-3 inches wide oblong 

 rather finely acuminated serrated only at the apex the base 

 cuneato-rotundate slightly oblique shortly petioled, costa 

 prominent beneath, veins copious fasciculate subhorizontally 

 patent branched or rather pinnated from near the base the 

 branches extending to the slightly thickened margin, the two 

 inferior or outer ones bearing the very elongated diplazioid 

 dark-brown sori, intermediate branches rarely soriferous or 

 imperfectly so. — Metten. Fil.LechJer. p. 16. t. 2. /. 10 {frag- 

 ment only; venation incorrect). Asplen. p. 170. 



Hab. Peru : St. Gavan, Lechler, in Herb. Nostr. n. 2269 (stipes and rachis 

 pale brown) ; Mount Guayrapurima, near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 

 47C0 (stipes and rachis dark brown). — This must be a magnificent as well as a 

 most distinct species, of which only a single pinna was known to Metteuius. Our 

 largest pinnae measure 14 inches long! 



263. A. (Eudiplazium) Lobbianum, Hook. ; caudex (in one 

 specimen) suberect and clothed with black subulate scales, 

 stipites aggregated 6-12 inches scaly only at the base, fronds 

 oblong-ovate 1-1 A foot long subcoriaceo-mendjranaceous pin- 

 nate, pinnce pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae 20 or more hori- 

 zontally petiolate 3-5 inches long subfalcate from a truncated 

 and subauriculated base oblong acuminate more or less serrate 

 subhorizontally patent, veins fasciculate twice or thrice dicho- 

 tomous, sori solitary or geminate linear subuniform neither 

 extending to the costa nor the margin. — Hook. 2nd Cent, of 

 Ferns, t. i7- 



Ilab. Java, Thos. Lohb. Marianne Islands, Carmickael. Luzon, Cuming, 

 n. 199. — My Java plant is the one figured in the Second Century of Ferns, and 

 1 think I am correct in referring to it Captain Carmichael's from the Marianne 



