492 DIPLORA. 



tripinnatifid ; rachis smooth, livid, scattered over with flaccid scales above ; 

 2nnn(e oblong-lanceolate, 1 ft. 1. ; jminl. sessile or short-stalked, ligulate-lan- 

 ceolate, 2\ in. 1., f-| in. br., cut down to a narrow wing into bluntly-toothed 

 scgm. ; veins simple, distant, 3-4-jugate ; sori thickish» infra-medial. — Kuhn, 

 Linn. 3G. j). 103. 



Hab. Island of Rawak, Gaudichaud. 



245*. A. (Dipl.) polyanthes, Soland ; arborescent ; /r. ample, deltoid, tripin- 

 natifid ; rachises naked, grey, not muricated ; pinnm oblong-lanceolate, 1-1^ 

 ft. 1. ; jnnnl. ligulate-lanceolate, distinctly stalked, 3-4 in. 1., ] in. br., cut down 

 to a narrow wing into close blunt subentire segm. 1^-2 lin. br. ; texture mem- 

 branous ; s«r/ace5 glabrous, bright-green ; WMJ^y-S-jugate, distinct, lower forked; 

 sori not touching midrib or edge, lower 2 lin., upper 1 lin. 1. 



Hab. Otaheite, Sir Joseph Banhs. 



260*. A. (Dipl.) herhaccum, Baker ; arborescent ; rachises stramineous, naked; 

 fr. ample, subdeltoid, 4-pinnatifid ; lower 2>innm oblong-deltoid, l|-2 ft. 1. ; pinnl. 

 distinctly stalked, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3-6 in. 1., 1-2 in. br. ; segm, 

 sessile, ligulate-oblong, blunt, pinnatifid, with close blunt entire lobes ; texture 

 membranous ; surfaces bright-green, naked ; veins pinnate in final lobes ; sc/ri 

 \-\\ lin,, touching midrib, falling short of edge. — Diplazium herbaceum, Fec^ 

 Fil. Bras. t. 23. Jig. 1. A. Glaziovii, Baker, Fl. Bras.fasc. 49./>. 455. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, Glaziou, 2061, 5303, Lieut. Carr ; and a closely-allied plant from 

 Peruvian Andes, Spruce, 5701. 



277*. A. (Hemi.) GheishrcgMi, Fourn. ; fr. densely csespitose, 1\ ft. 1., 1^^ 

 in. br. at middle, lanceolate, entire, narrowed gradually from the middle to an 

 acute point and short st. ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces pale-green, glabrous ; 

 veins fine, erecto-patent, uniform, forming several rows of areolse between the 

 midrib and edge ; sori linear, largest 1 in. 1., forming an angle of 10 degrees with 

 midrib near it. — Fil. Mex. p. 111. t. 5. 



Hab. Mexico, Oheishreght, 16. 



XXXVIII*.— DIPLORA, Baker. 



Sorus sausage-shaped, running up the erecto-patent simple vein from the mid- 

 rib of the frond to its margin. j7ivol. with two equal narrowly strapshaped 

 valves, meeting in the middle over the raised vein, and bursting open as the sorus 

 matures. — Journ. Bot. new series 2. p>- 235, with plate. 



1. D. integrifolia, Baker; rhizome wide-creeping, naked, green, woody, under 

 1 lin. thick ; st. articulated at the base, under 1 in., naked, greenish ; fr. entire, 

 linear-ligulate, 9-10 in. 1., \ in. br., narrowed to both ends, obscurely crenato- 

 repand ; texture membranous ; surfaces green, naked ; veins distinct, erecto-patent, 

 usually simple ; sori j-f in. 1., 50-60 on each side of midrib. 



Hab. Solomon Isles, Mrs. Burnett. — Habit and rhizome like Aspleniuni vitiaforme. 



XLIII.— ASPIDIUM. Page 248-259. 



.3*. A. (Polyst.) craspedosorum, Maxim. ;'caud. erect ; scales large, brown, lan- 

 ceolate ; St. 1-1^ in., stramineous, scaly throughout, like the rachis ;fr. lanceolate, 

 simply pinnate, 4-6 in. 1., |-]] in. br., often rooting at tip ; pinnw 20-30-jugate, 

 sessile, lanceolate, blunt, une(jual-sided, serrate, l|-2 lin. br., square on upper 

 side, cuneate-truncate on lower side at base, lowest shorter, deflexed ; texture 

 subcoriaceous ; both sides pale-green, with a few scales ; sori crowded, marginal, 



