56 ASPIDIl'M. § EUASPIDIUM. 



site oblong acuminate entire or sinuate or subpinnatifid, 

 lowest pair bipartite and subpetiolate, inferior segment fal- 

 cate acute, upper pinnce sessile and subdecurreut, terminal 

 one generally subrbomboid more or less tripartite and pinna- 

 tifid (formed of tbree or more confluent ones), tlie base cu- 

 neate and decurrent, primary veins flexuose slender patent 

 connected by irregular transverse ones of wbicb the areolcs 

 are reticulated, with free veinlets in their areoles, sori 

 terminal or dorsal often at the junction of veinlets form- 

 ing t\vo rows near the primary veins, involucres orbicular 

 and subpeltate but with a narrow sinus hence cordate. — N?/;. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 13 and 239. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 217. Metten. 

 FiL Hort.Lips. p.95. t. 22. / 13 [venation). Aspkl. p. 122. 

 Sagenia, Moore. Bathmium,Li;?A:. Cardiochlfena, Fe>, Ge«. 

 Fii. t. 24 B. 1 (venation and sori very good). Aspid. fraxini- 

 folium, Schrad. A. bifidum, Pr. A. Poeppigii, Pr. ? and Met- 

 ten. Aspid. p. 123. Plum. FiL t. 145. 



Hab. Tropical America: Martinique, Plumier, and probal)ly all the West In- 

 dian Islands ; St. Vincent, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Cuba, C. Wright, n. 834 ; Do- 

 minica, Trinidad, Mexico, Galeotti, n.C47o, pinna; small, lanceolate, Liebmann,Jur- 

 genson, n. 767 ; Panama, Hayes, Cuming, n. 1289, Fendler, n. 407 ; Cupica, Seemann, 

 11. 993, and Coyba (pinnae much attenuated at the base and finely acuminated) ; 

 Galapagos, Lieut. Wood ; Guiana, Le Prieur, Ilostmann, n. 239, Appun. n. 168 

 (basal pinnre with a superior auricle at the base) ; Peru, Ruiz and Pavon, Matheu-s, 

 n. 1825; Tarapota, Sjjruce,n. 3981 ; Ecuador, foot of Chimborazo, 3000 feet, n. 

 5724 and 5725, at elev. 4000 feet ("between ? and 8 feet high; lowest pair of 

 pinnse 1-^ foot long and 4^ inches wide; a noble Fern"), Spruce; Esmcraldas, 

 Seemann; Quitinian Andes, banks of the Napo, Jamieson, wiih very narrow lan- 

 ceolate pinnae ^-f inch wide, and forest of Archedona (ordinary form) ; New- 

 Granada, Schlim, n. 62,231,640; Venezuela, Fendler, ti. 165; Caraccas, Linden, 

 n. 159, 510; Brazil, Selloiv, Gardner, n. 52. — This species has a very extensive 

 range in tropical America, and varies much in size and iu the form of its pinnae 

 and segments. Plumier's figure (t. 145) is a very faithful representation of the 

 species. 



70. A. (Euaspidium), pacJiypJtylhim, Kze. ; " frond ample 

 subcoriaceous pubescenti-scabrous linear-oblong acuminate 

 pinnate confluent at the apex, pinnae shortly petiolate, sterile 

 ones from an unequal base oblong-linear falcato-acuminate 

 entire, lowest ones inciso-piimatifid at the inferior margins, 

 segments acuminate, costa prominent beneath, fertile ones 

 subsessile narrower, sori among veins compoundly biseriate, 

 rachis puberulous livid straw-colour, stipes long near the base 

 paleaceous with large scales, scales linear-acuminate." Kze. 

 in Bat. Zcit. \u p. 2.19. Metten. Fit. Hort. Lips. p. 95. t. 21 

 [sterile 2nnncB and fertile frond). Aspid. 7;. 121. Sagenia, 

 Moore. Aspidiurn fissum, Kze. Bot. Zeit. \\.p. 258 [accord- 



