264 ASPLENIUM, § EUDIPLAZHTM. 



apices, sori oblique." Pr. Reliq. Hcenk. i. j). 46. t. ^. f. 1. — 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 190. Diplazium, Pr. Teiit. p. 111. 



Hab. Valleys of the Cordillera of Peru, Ilofnkp, Pwppig, Matheu-s, n. 1818. — 

 Presl's figure well represents a secondary pinna and a portion of the rachis. The 

 remarkably flexuose or zigzag rachis, giving the ])lant quite the appearance 

 of a climber, readily distinguishes this. All my three si)eciniens possess this pe- 

 culiarity. 



293. A. (Eudiplazium) alJanfodioidea, Metten. ; " frond 

 ovato-oblong bipinnato-pinnatifid and l)ipinnatifid more sim- 

 ple upwards, pinncc lanceolate falcate acuminate, segments 

 oblong subfalcate truncato-obtuse adpresso-serrate, sori uni- 

 seriate, costee rachis and stipes paleaceous." Kze. — Aspl. 

 allantodioides, Metten. Asplen. p. 191. Allantodia asplenio- 

 ides, Kze. in Limma, ix. p. 72. Diplazium, Pr. Tent. Pterid. 

 p. 114. t. 4. /. 4 {small fragment of a jiinna only). 



Hab. Peru, Pteppig, "Allantodia? cosfalis, Desv. (Aspl. conchatum, Moore, 

 oUm, et Hook.): priecipue diifert stipite rachibusque glahris; All. australis, 

 Br. : fronde deltoidea, soris confertis." — The figure, a mere fragment, represents 

 a very common form of segments of a pinna of this group. 



294. A. (Eudiplazium) fusco-jmbescens, Hook. ; caudex ?, 

 stipes nearly 2 feet long stout dark-coloured (as is the whole 

 plant, looking as if it might have grown in watery places) not 

 paleaceous but fusco-pubescent as are all the rachises on both 

 sides but most so beneath, frond ample 2-3 feet long sub- 

 membranaceous blackish-green (when dry) tripinnate, pri- 

 mary pinnse a foot long spreading horizontally broad-ol)long 

 petiolate acuminate, secondary pinute very shortly petiolate 

 3-4 inches long horizontal oblong rather obtuse younger or 

 later developed ones pinnatifid with deep narrow oblong more 

 or less lobed or pinnatifid segments, older ones again pin- 

 nated especially at the base, pinnules always sessile and adnate 

 and subdecurrent narrow-oblong lobato-pinnatifid, lowest lobes 

 or segments rather large subauriculiform, veins pinnated ob- 

 lique rather distant, sori few small suI:)oval, involucres bul- 

 late thin-membranaceous now and then diplazioid the mar- 

 gin erose, rachis often slightly winged. 



Hab. Mount Campana, near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4759. Ocaua, 

 New Granada, in forests, elev. 4-5000 feet, Sc/ilim, n. 09 ? (main rachis stra- 

 mineous, scarcely pubescent, sori longer; probably a dift'erent species). — I cannot 

 refer this to any described Diplazium. The specimen is an entire one, with much 

 the liabit and ramification, and even the pinnules of J.spl. {Allantodia, Br.) 

 umbrosum ; but the whole plant is blackish-grccn, the involucres are small, and 

 not of a fragile character. Of Schlim's plant I am altogether doubtful, and the 



