248 ASPLENIUM, § EUDIPLAZIUM. 



267- A. (Eudiplazium) syhaticum, Pr. ; caudex stout erect 

 woody sending down very stout unbranched vermiculate 

 fibres, paleaceous at the summit with rather large almost black 

 subulate scales, stipes a span to a foot long stout scaly only 

 at the base, fronds 1 .^-2 feet long ovato-lanceolate submem- 

 branaceous ])innated pinnatifid at the apex, pinnce below 

 petiolate horizontally patent from a generally truncated base 

 elongate oblongo-lanceolate acuminate subfalcate entire or 

 subsinuate or subpinnatifido-lobate rarely subauriculate at 

 the superior base, lobes rounded entire or serrated, veins 

 fasciculato-pinnate in the lobed pinnae each fascicle corre- 

 sponding to a lobe, generally all soriferous, sori very slender 

 frequently diplazioid. — Pr. Rel. Hank. i. p. 42. Metten. 

 Aspl. p. 179. Diplazium, Siv. Sijn. Fil. p. 92. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. p. 352. Sckk. Fil. p. 80. t. 85 b. Anisogonium, Pr. 

 Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 56 B. Microstegia, Pr. D. Hilsenber- 

 gianum, Pr. {J. Smith refers here Aspl. maximum a?id A. 

 latifolium, Don, and A. diversifolium, Wall.). Diplaz. bul- 

 biferum. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 141. /. 18./. 1. A. 

 extensum, /. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. iii. p. 407 in part. 



Hab. Mauritius, Bojer, Carmichael, Sieber, n. 29. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1349 

 (some specimens witli pinnse quite entire). Feejee Islands, Brackenridge, Milne, 

 n. 09 and 300. Isle of Samar, Cuming, n. 333, and Malacca, n. 338. Java, 

 Zollinger, n. 583. — This approaches the larger specimens of A. Schkuhrii (which 

 I sus])ect is often mistaken for it), but the pinna) are either entire oi- only divided 

 at the margin into shallow lobes or large teeth, and the caudex is very different 

 in the two. 



268. A. (Eudiplazium) mutihim, Kze. ; " frond membran- 

 aceous opaque green glabrous, stipes H foot long lurid-pur- 

 plish clothed at the base with largish brown ovato-lanceolate 

 scales, frond 2-.3 feet long broad-lanceolate acuminate pin- 

 nated pinnatifid at the apex, pinnae numerous ol)liquely 

 patent (on a petiole 2 lines long) 6j inches long 1 inch wide 

 (e basi truncatce, medio in petiolum prodvctce vel in/eriore 

 subti^uncatd', superiore iriincato-rotimdatce, lonr/ivs in petiolum 

 decurrente) elongato-oblong rather obtuse or acuminated at 

 the attenuated apex pimiato-lobate, the lower ones subdistant 

 smaller, lowest ones 3^ inches long, lobes subrotundate un- 

 equally denticulato-serrate, costules (standing at an angle 

 of 70°), veins manifest 5-6 on each side, lowest anterior ones 

 diplazioid extending nearly from the costa to the sinus of 

 the lobes, the rest costular and contiguous to the costules 

 not extending to the margin, involucres membranaceous." 



