21 C 38. ASPLENIUM, §§ EUASPLENIUM. 



flahellate segm., 1-2 in. br., sharply toothed on the outer edge ; texture coriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, grey, naked ; veiiis subflabeUate ; sori oblong, usually cue only to a 

 segm. — A. scandicinum, Hk. Sp. 3. jt>. 183. t. 204, no7i Kaulf. 



Hab. Brazil and Ecuador. 



131, A. fragrans, Sn-artz ; st. tufted, 4-8 in. 1., firm, naked, erect, brownish 

 below ;/;•. 6-9 in. 1., 3-4 in. br., subdeltoid, tripinnate, with numerous close- 

 placed deltoid pinnoi on each side, the lowest 3 in. 1., 1^ in. br. ; pinnl. lan- 

 ceolate-deltoid ; segm. sul)spathulate, 1 lin. l)r., dentate round the outer edge ; 

 texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, naked ; veins fine, obscure, one in each tooth 

 of the segm. ; sori copious, at last often covering the whole under surface of the 

 segm. — /3, A. fceniculaceum, H. B. K.. ; ult. segm. narrowly linear. — Hk. Sp. 3. 

 p. 181. 



Hab. Tropical America, from Mexico and the West Indies to Peru and Brazil. — The 

 two varieties seem to be cjuite connected by gradual intermediate gradations. I now 

 look upon these as more compound forms of auritum. 



132. A. Saulii, Hooker ; st. tufted, 3-4 in. 1., firm, erect, greenish, nearly 

 naked ; fr. 4-5 in. 1., 3 in. br., ovate-deltoid, with numerous imbricated pinnce, 

 the lowest deltoid, 2 in. 1., 1-1|- in. br. ; piunl. lanceolate, cut down to the 

 rachis into distant linear-cuneate sharply-toothed segm. ; texture subcoriaceous ; 

 rachis firm, naked ; m??.? obscure, one in each segment ; sori copious. — A. Blakis- 

 toni, Baker, edit. 1 . 



Hab. Province of Szchuan, West China, Capt. Bla/ciston. — Near pekinense, but more 

 compound, with a deltoid not oblong-lanceolate outline. 



Group of A. lanceolatum. Texture herbaceous or slightly coriaceous. Venation 

 pinnate. Fronds 4-8 in. long, lanceolate. Sp. 133-136. 



133. A. fontanum, Bernh. ; st. tufted, 2-4 in. 1., wdry, slender, naked, 

 greenish ; fr. 3-6 in. 1., 1-1| in. br., oblong-lanceolate, with numerous /»m?«« on 

 each side, the lower ones short and reflexed, the central ones horizontal, 

 \-^ in. 1., ^-| in. br., cut down to the rachis into several stalked innnl. on each 

 side, the lower ones oblong, deeply inciso-pinnatifid ; texture herbaceous ; rachis 

 and upper surface bright-green ; veins oblique ; sori copioiis, covering nearly 

 the whole under surface of the pinnl. — Hk. Sp. 3. p. 193. Brit. F. t. 34. — 

 /3, A. Bourgeei, Boiss.; pinnce oblong, blunt, § in. 1., ^ in. br., cut down about 

 halfway to the rachis into oblong sharply-toothed lobes, most of them somewhat 

 decurved. 



Hab. England to Spain, Naples, and Greece ; Lycia ; Himalayas. — A . refractum, Moore 

 (Nat. Brit. F. t. 35), only known in cultivation, onies very near var. /3, but has a chesnut- 

 coloured rachis, and larger, closer, and more distinctly reflexed pinnre. A. exiyuum, 

 Beddome, from the Neilgherries, seems to be a less-divided form of this, with narrow 

 fronds and an ebeneous rachis. A similar plant has been gathered in Mexico by Mr. 

 Glennie, and a long narrow-fronded form, but with broader and more divided pinnae, in 

 Japan by Mr. Wright. 



134. A. vaiians, Ilk. & Gr. ; st. tufted, 1-3 in. 1., slender, naked, greenish ; 

 fr. 4-6 in. 1., 1 in. br., oblont^'-Janceolate, with 8-} 2 pinnce on each side, the lower 

 ones subdeltoid, ^-| in. 1., ^-g in. br., cut down to the rachis into a few cuneato- 

 flabellate j)innL, the lowest 2 lin. across, sharply toothed on the outer edge ; 

 texture herbaceous ; rachis slender, naked, green ; veins one carried into each 

 tooth ; sori copious, when mature covering nearly the whole under surface of 

 the \nm\\.—Hk. Sp. 3. p. 192. Hk. dj Gr. Ic. t. 172. 



Hab. Himalayas, Neilgherries, Ceylon, Cape Colony, CafFraria, Natal. 



