ASPIDILM, § I'OLYSTICHUM. 13 



pinnule, sori few in two rows one on each side of the cos- 

 tules. (Tau. CCX IY.)—Kze. Herb, fide Metten. Aspid. p. 43. 

 Polystichuni, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 83. Aspid. pungens, IVuU. 

 Cat. n. 368 [not Klfs.). Aspid. ilicifoliuni, Don, Prodr. Nep. 

 p. 3 [not Fee). Aspid. sagittatum, Jacquem. MSS. in Herb. 

 Mus. Paris and Herb. Nostr. 



Hab. Northern India; Nepal and Kuiiiaoii, Wallich, Sirachey and Winterhottom, 

 elev. 9000 feet ; Simla, Cul. Ba/en. N. W. India, Edyworth ; Valley of the Jumna, 

 9-1000 feet elev., Jacquemont, n. 74, 75. Sikkim, Changtani, Tambur river, 

 Hook. fil. and Thomson. — This has a lax and flexuose habit not common among 

 genuine Polyst'icha: and, taking the more ordinary forms, such as we have repre- 

 sented in our Plate CCXIV., it seems very distinct ; but even in this state it has its 

 representative, especially in the peculiar triangular shape of the piniitC, in the West 

 Indies, in the Anpid. trianyulnm, Svv., figured at t. 33 of our ' Filices Exotica; ;' 

 there however the frond is more coriaceous, the pinna; are less spinoso-lobate and 

 sessile, and the scales of the caudex and lower part of stipes are very different, 

 large, and with a deep glossy black disk. Again, some of our specimens from Mr. 

 Edgworth and from Sikkim, have the pinna; more elongated, more pinnatifid, and 

 more disposed to be t)ipinnate. In our ordinary form we here and there find a 

 pinna which bears a distinct pinnule. 



14. A. (Polystichum) diaphanum^ ZoU. ; "frond thin-mem- 

 branaceous subpellucent flaccid ferrugineo-pilose on the 

 nerves oblong-lanceolate acuminate pinnato-subpinnatifid, 

 pinutc shortly petiolate approximate divergent or patulous 

 trapezio-ovate oblong auriculate obtuse, the adult plant at 

 the base (partly only deeply pinnatifid) with the auricle free, 

 segments obliquely ovate lobed or toothed all of them obso- 

 letely costate aristato-serrate or toothed, sori at the base of 

 the laminfe or of the lobes or teeth solitary, of the lower ones 

 and of the auricle binate or quaternate subrotund with lax 

 capsules, petiole rachis short stipes and rhizome densely fer- 

 rugineo-paleaceous." Kze. in Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 2G0. Metten. 

 Aspid. 2). 42. 



Hah. Java, Zollinger, m. 330. — Mettenins places this in the same subsection 

 with Aspid. stimulans and A. ocellal.um. Wall, (our A. avricuhilum, van). I am 

 not acquainted with it. Kunze says that in habit it resembles Poli/podium rep- 

 tans, Sw. (Aspidium, Metten.). 



15. A. (Polystichum) ccespitosum, Wall. ; caudex a short 

 thick scaly rhizome, scales often ciliated, stipites tufted 

 slender 2-G inches long stramineous as well as the rachis, 

 fronds 4 inches to a span and more long oblong- or linear- 

 lanceolate acute rather than acuminate chartaceo-niembra- 

 naceous often glossy pinnated, pinnte rather distant horizon- 

 tal \-\\ inch long ])etiolate from an entire obliquely cune- 

 ate truncate and obtusely auricled, superior base trapczoideo- 



