48 ASPIDIUM, ^ EUASPIDIUM. 



trifid, the margin entire or more or less sinuate or pinnati- 

 fido- (not deeply) lobate, primary veins distant parallel flex- 

 uose, secondary ones transverse with these forming arched 

 areoles which are occupied by anastomosing veins including 

 copious free veinlets and two sori on short free veinlets, 

 these sori form two lines or series between the primary veins, 

 involucre on a large oblong receptacle rotundato-cordate per- 

 sistent. — Kze. Bot. Zeit. iv. ;;. 462. Metten. Aspid. p. 120. 

 Sagenia, Moore. Aspid. decurrens, ./. Sin. Journ. of Bot. iii. 

 p. 410 {name only), not Pr. Reliq. Hcenk., according to Met- 

 tenius. Aspid. platynotus, Kze. in Linn(ea, xxiii. p. 229 {fide 

 Metten.). Cardiochloena alata, Fee, Gen. Fit. /a 315. A. 

 macrophyllum, Bl. En. Fit. Jav. p. 144 {ex'cl. syn.). 



Hab. Malay Islands : Luzon, Cuming, n. 148 (segments copiously lohed) ; and 

 Isle of Panay, Cuming, n. 356, segments numerous, quite entire ; Java, B/iime, in 

 Herb. Noslr. ; Borneo, Low ; Sarawak, Thos. Lobh ; Pula IBessar, Griffith ; 

 Chittagong, Hook. fil. and Thomson. Kliasya and Assam, Griffith, Simons. 

 Ceylon, Mrs. Gent. JValker, Gardner, Thicaites. Island of Formosa, IVilford, n. 

 474. Loochoo Islands, C. Wright, Herb, of the U. S. N. Pacif. Ea-pl. Krp.; 

 Pacitic Islands, Aneiteum,il/'<7«7toray and Milne. Ovalau and Feejee, Milne, See- 

 mann, n. 748, Cairns. — ;8, segments 3-5, shorter and broader, more approximate. 

 Brazil ; woods in the Organ Mountains, n. 5947, and at Gongo-Soko, w. 5315. — A 

 species in general habit and structure nearly allied to J. alatum, but having in- 

 variably only two rows of large sori between the primary veins. In this respect, 

 as well as in others, our Brazilian specimens above noted, quite agree with the 

 present species. 



61. A. (Sagenia) cicutarium, Sw. ; caudex stout ascending 

 clothed at the apex witli black subulate falcate scales, sti- 

 pites more less tufted from 1-2 inches to a foot and a half 

 long ^stramineous or castaneous or ebeneous scaly, scales 

 lanceolato-subulate spreading deciduous, fronds 4-6 inches 

 to 2-3 feet long oblong or ovate in the smaller and even 

 fertile specimens quite membranaceous green when dry, 

 larger ones coriaceo-membranaceous brown or black when 

 dry, piimate (young plants 3-foliolate) or below bi- and 

 even tripinnate, the apex variously pinnatifid, pinnjc often 

 opposite usually oblong subsessile obtuse or acuminate 

 variously lobed and pinnatifid often very unequally, lowest 

 pair in the more simply pinnated forms semiovate at the in- 

 ferior base pinnatifid with much longer segments than the 

 rest of the pinnae showing a disposition to become compound 

 there, and in our largest specimens the lowest pair is not un- 

 frequently pinnate (and sometimes the pair above) each divi- 

 sion long-petioled and bearing pinnules resembling the su- 

 perior pinnae, segments everywhere more or less acute or 



