58 ASPIDIUM. 



Aspid. repandum, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 410, not 

 Willd. {Pr.). Moore retains J. Smith's irriguum under Aspi- 

 dium (Euaspidium) and refers to it Microsorium trifidum, 

 Fee, Gen. Fit. p. 269. Aspidium fissum, Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. 

 ;?. 258. 



Hab. Isle of Sorzogon, Hesnke. S. Caniavines, Cuming, n. 183 {in Herb. Nostr. 

 and n. 31, according to Mettenius, A.irrii/imm, J. Sm.). Java, " Zollinger, 2308." 

 — I possess only two fronds of this, n. 183 of Cuming. The venation and sori 

 resemljle those of Asirid. polymorphum, but the pinna; are long and narrow, finely 

 acuminated, and much attenuated at the base. Too near Asp. pachyphyllum. 



72. A. (Euaspidium) grandifoliiim, Metten. ; "fronds 2 

 feet long subcoriaceous at length nearly glabrous ovate pin- 

 nated, pinnoe about four pair opposite petiolulate from being 

 ovate at the base long-tapering on the petiole, superior base 

 cuneate oblongo-lanceolate acuminate entire or repando- 

 sinuate, lowest pinnae unequally bifoliolate, the secondary 

 segments superior smaller, inferior one larger, secondary 

 veins (primary with us) at right-angles with the costee curved 

 near the margin, primary areoles especially of the superior 

 fertile pinnte narrow 12-15-seriate on each side regular, sori 

 minute 3-4 between the costa, rarely 6-8-seriate, biseriate 

 between the arched veins of the areoles, involucre reniform." 

 — Metten. Aspid. p. 1 24. Poly podium grandifolium. Wall. Cat. 

 n. 282. Phymatodes, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 198. Pleopeltis, 

 3Joore, Ind. Fil. p. 78. Polypod. siifolium, Willd. Sp. PL p. 

 196. Aspid. Bl. Sagenia, Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 93. 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich, n. 282 {Mettenius). — Unknown to us. We should have 

 been glad if the author, whose character we have given above, had made some 

 observations on its affinities, which appear to be very dubious, to judge of the 

 different genera in which it has been placed. Blume compares h\% Aspid. siifolium 

 with his A. sanctum, a very little-known species, though from a garden specimen 

 from Holland in my herbarium I suspect it to be a form of Asp. pachyphyllum. 



73. A. (Euaspidium) immersum, Hook.; caudex? stipites 

 6-10 inches long and as well as the rachis stramineous, fronds 

 broadly ovate scarcely acuminate 6-8 or 10 inches long sub- 

 coriaceo-membranaceous subbi- below tripinnate, primary 

 pinnae 5-7 obliquely ovate acuminate but obtuse in distant 

 pairs long-petioled 2-4 inches long deeply and irregularly 

 pinnatifid below pinnate, lowest pair at the base subpinnate, 

 segments or ultimate pinnae oblong obtuse sinuato-lobate at 

 the margin, veins prominent anastomosing into suborbicular 

 large areoles not more than two series in each segment, these 

 are so depressed as to form a cavity (pustuled on the upper 



