52 ASPIDIUxM, § EUASPIDIUM. 



with long acuminated entire or lobed segments, primary 

 veins from the costa patent slender more or less waved re- 

 mote, the rest of the veins uniformly anastomosing witli 

 areoles enclosing free simple or forked veinlets, sori scattered 

 most copious near the margins of the pinucE compital or more 

 frequently terminal on a vein within a large areole. — JFall. 

 Cat. n. 379. Sagenia variolata, Moore? Aspidium coadu- 

 natum ? {in part) ^ Metten. Aspid. p. 281. 



Ilab. India: Amherst, Tavoy and Penang, irallich.n. 379; Moiilmein, Pariah, 

 n. 6 ; Cliittagong, Hook. fil. and Thomson, n. 225 (two inferior pairs of pinnae 

 again pinnate); Mergui, Griffith; Telyn, above SWhet, Hook. Jil. and Thomson, n. 

 225. — Although 1 believe a good species and long known in herbaria, this has 

 never yet been described. Mettenius has nnited it with Aspid. coadunalum, 

 Wall., and Bentham, in FI. Hongkong., has referred it to his A. trifoliatum (our 

 A. subtripfiyllum) ; but it has characters which induce me to keep it distinct. 



65. (Euaspidium) subtriphyllum. Hook, ; caudex creeping 

 and as well as the base of the stipites moderately scaly, stipites 

 a span to 1^ or more long generally brownish, fronds gla- 

 brous or pubescent subcoriaceo-merabranaceous, when young 

 entire or 3-lobed cordate acuminate, in maturity .3-foliolate 

 or pinnated with five or seven pinnae, terminal pinna large 

 subrhomboid variously pinnatifid lower lobes the longest, inter- 

 mediate ones sessile or petiolate oblong more or less acumi- 

 nate, lowest pair distant large semiovate more or less acumi- 

 nate and pinnatifid, lowest segments (especially at the inferior 

 base) generally very much elongated patent ordeflexed or not 

 unfrequently (unless I am mistaken in the limits of species) the 

 lowest pinnae are pinnate and even subbipinnate, all costate, 

 veins uniformly anastomosing with areoles having free simple 

 or forked veinlets, sori scattered all compital (on the back of 

 the anastomosing veins), involucres cordiform. — Polypodium 

 subtriphyllum, Hook, and Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 256. 

 t. 50. Aspidium trifoliatum. Hook, in Florid. Hongkong. Kew 

 Gard. Misc. ix. p. 341. Benth. FI. Hongkong, p. 450 {excl. 

 syn. of A. variolosum, Wall.). Eat. in C. Wright, Herb, of 

 U. St. Pacif. Expl. Exp. {in Herb. Nostr.). Drvnaria lati- 

 folia, Brack. Fil. U. St. Expl. Exped. p. 50} 



Ilab. Ciiina : Samla Bay, Alexander, Lay and Collie (Cauioens Cave and 

 elsewhere, frequent). Hongkong, C. Wright, Col. Urquhart. Moulmein, Parish, n. 

 87 (very large, 3 feet high, lowest pair of pinnre a foot long, on long petioles and 

 again pinnated). Ceylon, small, Gardner, n. l.'iOO. Tropical Africa : Johanna 

 Island, Lieuf. Speke, large, and very much i-esemhling n. 87 of Mr. Parish ; 

 Mauritius, Telfair, Bouton. Pacific Islands : Frankland Islands, South Pacific .', 

 M'Gillivray, Voy. of (he Rattlesnake; Island of Mallecally, C. Moore; Tahiti, 

 Mathews, Barclay, Bidwill (fronds large, pinnae deeply pinnatifid), Brackenridge. 



