ASPLENIUM, § KUDIPI.AZIUM. 253 



small densely clothed with the bases of old stipites pale- 

 aceous, stipites tufted 5-G inches long, fronds broad-lanceo- 

 late acuminate membranaceous a span to 12-14 inches long 

 pinnated pinnatifid at the apex, piiintc on slender petioles 

 1^-3 inches long very patent broad-lanceolate falcate sharply 

 acuminated truncated and auricled at the superior base, in- 

 ferior base excised the margin more or less deeply lobed, 

 lobes as well as the auricles spinulosely inciso-serratc, costa 

 slender flexuose vein-like, veins in oblique fascicles corre- 

 sponding to each lobe dichotomous lowest superior branch 

 oidy soriferous, sori mostly asplenioid linear neither attain- 

 ing the costa nor the margin. — IVall. Cat. n. 210. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 163. Diplazium, Fr. Diplaz. longifolium, Moore, 

 Ind. Fil. p. 141. 



Hal). Nepal, IVallich. Simla, Edgworth (in one of these specimens the auricle 

 forms a distinct, semiovate pinnule). — This species is, I believe, very distinct, 

 with much of the habit of Aspl. striatum, but easily distinguished by the spinu- 

 loso-serrated or incised lobes of the pinnae. 



277- A. (Eudiplazium) speciosum, Bl. ; " fronds pinnate 

 pinnatifid at the apex coriaceous nearly glabrous, pinnae op- 

 posite shortly petiolate elongato-lanceolate very acuminate 

 truncated at the base deeply pinnatifid, segments oblong 

 obtuse sharply serrated, rachis and stij)es tetragonous pale- 

 aceo-hirsute." — Metten. Asp/en. p. 185. t. 5. f. 5 {portion of 

 a pinna). Diplazium, Bl. En. Fil. Jav.p. 193. 



Hiib. " Java, Blume, Zollinger. — Differs from Diplaz. acuminatum, Bl. (A. 

 Sorzogonense, Pr.), iu the coriaceous," elongated pinnae, with the segments sharply 

 serrated." 



278. A. (Eudiplazium) Cubense, Hk. ; caudex from the 

 thickness of a crow's to a goose-quill subhorizontal or as- 

 cending densely rooting with coarse fibres paleaceous at the 

 summit,- stipites aggregated 4 inches to a span long slender 

 stramineous, fronds 4-6 or 8 inches long bright-green mem- 

 branaceous ovate or broad-lanceolate acuminate pinnate pin- 

 natifid at the apex, pinnee not numerous patent li-2 inches 

 long petiolate lanceolate sharply inciso- and submucronately 

 serrate acute or obtuse oblique cuneate below petiolate supe- 

 rior base v.ith an acute auricle, lowest pair of pinnae with the 

 auricle free to the base or again pinnate with lowest pinnules 

 again with a free auricle so that the frond then becomes sub- 

 tripinnate, veins pinnate pellucid simple or forked, sori copious 

 elongated linear oblique inferior ones diplazioid, involucres 

 dark-brown membranaceous. (Tab. CCVII.) 



