ASPLEMTJM, § EUDIPLAZIUM. 263 



oblongo-ovate acuminate, pinnules 1-2^ inches long approxi- 

 mated horizontal sessile from a broad truncated base oblong 

 obtuse rarely subacuminate, the smaller serrato-lobate at the 

 margins, the larger ones deeply pinnatifid (except at the 

 apex) more than halfway down to the rachis, segments 4 

 lines long oblong-parallelogram strongly but unequally and 

 subspinulosely serrated, veins pinnated sunk oblique gene- 

 rally once-forked, sori few distant very small, in the smaller 

 pinnules in two series close to the costa, in the larger ones in 

 two series upon the segments, scarcely a line long prominent 

 lower ones frequently diplazioid always very distant from 

 the margin, involucres small very firm rigid permanent 

 brownish-black, rachises stramineous-brown slightly flexuose, 

 younger ones apparently deciduously subpaleaceous. 



Ilab. Ecuador, Jameson. — The characters of this Fern are too much at variance 

 with all that I know of Aspl. dubiiim, to allow of my uniting it with that. It 

 corresponds, indeed, in the general form of its pinnae and pinnules, but the colour 

 is peculiarly pale, the texture singularly harsh and rigid, the serratures, though 

 not sharp and elongated, yet are subspinulose, the substance quite opaque, the 

 veins scarcely prominent but subobsolete, the sori distant, few, very short, and 

 small, and the involucres firm and of so brownish-black a colour, that, taken in 

 conjunction with their size, they present the appearance at first sight of fleas 

 arranged in parallel lines ; whence the specific name. 



291. A. (Eudiplazium) Klotzschit, Mett. ; "frond ovato- 

 lanceolate tripinnatifid" (tripinnate ?), " pinn£e more or less 

 long elongate acuminate, pinnules lanceolate shortly stipitate 

 deeply pinnated coarsely serrated at the apex acuminate gra- 

 dually smaller upwards, segments coarsely crenato-serrate 

 oblong obliquely truncated at the apex, stipes tall compresso- 

 angled brownish-black flexuose evanescenti- paleaceous, in- 

 volucres fimbriate/' Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 79. Asplen. 

 p. 188. — Lotzea diplazioides, A7. et Karst. in LintKEa, xx. 

 p. 358. 



Hab. Columbia, Karsten, n. 23 ; Moricand, n. 431 {Metten. in Herb. Nostr.). 

 Venezuela, Fendler, n. 148 (sori old) and 149. Cuba, Linden, n. 1753. — The 

 involucre is brown, very delicate, and rather strongly reticulated, lax, and when 

 perfect beautifully fimbriated at the margin, which character appears to have 

 induced Dr. Klotzsch to have constituted of it a new genus. 



292. A. (Eudiplazium) /6\fM0M<w,Pr. (not Schrad.); "fronds 

 bipinnate scandent ?, pinnules alternate petiolate oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate horizontally deflexed pinnatifid, segments 

 oblong very obtuse squamulose at the margin lowest ones 

 serrated, rachises tetragonous flexuose pubescent at their 



