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Islands. I possess a Fern from Hongkong (U'ilford), which I can hardly dis- 

 tinguish from it, but the terminal pinna is more entire, yet less so than in A. 

 fraxmifolium, to which I might otherwise have referred it. 



264. A. (Eudiplazium) striatum, L. ; caudex elongated 

 thick woody clotlied with the stout bases of former years' 

 stipites and large stout radicles black-scaly at the summit, 

 stipites subaggregated 1-H foot long lurid-brown paleaceous 

 at the base with firm ovato-lanceolate black glossy scales, 

 fronds 1-H rarely 2 feet long ovate acuminate broad at the 

 base (hence subdeltoid) suljmembranaceous pinnate pinnatifid 

 at the summit; pinnoe numerous 5-6 inches long horizontal 

 petiolate broad-lanceolate often finely acuminate deeply aljout 

 halfway to the costa pinnatifid, lo1)es ovate subfalcate obtuse 

 or rarely subacute entire or more or less serrated, superior 

 base truncate its lobe longer so as to be subauriculate, the 

 acuminated apices of the pinnoe serrated or subentire, su- 

 perior pinnaj confluent acute, veins distant fascicled laxly 

 pinnate in each lobe, sori linear sometimes solitary and con- 

 fined to the lowest veinlet on the superior base of a fascicle 

 and then curved forming an oblique single series on each 

 side the costa of the pinnse (then often diplazioid), less fre- 

 quently shorter straight sori are on all the veinlets in the lobe 

 (as figured by Plumier), sometimes the sori are confined to a 

 few of the superior veinlets in a lobe, and there are all inter- 

 mediate grades. — Linn. Sp. PL]). 1539. Siv. Syn. Fit. ]). 82. 

 Met ten. Asplen. p. 185 {judging by the references to Plumier 

 and Hook. Gen. Fil.). Diplazium, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 114. 

 Hook. Gen. Fil. t.55.f.3. A. Shepherdi, Spreng. Fil. Man. 

 231. /. 'i7'/- 5, C* {according to Mettenins, and supposi7ig his 

 references to Raddi's Aspl. ambiguum and to Diplaz. coarc- 

 tatum, Lk. be correct). Met ten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 75. 

 Asplen. p. 164. Aspl. Caracasanum, Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 338. 

 Metten. Aspl. p. 165. t. 5. /". 17 {smaller pinna and narroiver 

 fronds). Diplaz. chlororachis, Kze. Fee, Gen. p. 213 {ac- 

 cording to Mettenius). Asplenium ambiguum, Raddi, Fil. 

 Bras. p. 38. t. 54 {larger, and with copious sori on nearly all 

 the lobes of the pinnce, loliich the author considers the more 

 perfect state of the plant), and /. 54 bis {which Raddi repre- 

 sents as the younger state, ivith two series of sori along the 



* Moore refers A. Shepherdi oi Spreng. to Diplazium radicans, Sw., a bipinnate 

 species. 



