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Courtallum has short deltoid fronds fully 2 inches across at the base, 

 and broader pinnules. 



(Also in South Africa, North China and Japan.) 



35. Asplenium bulbiferum. {Forst.) Stipes tufted, 6-12 

 inches long, firm, erect, scaly near the base, sometimes hairy through- 

 out ; funds 1-4 feet long, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 pinnate ; 

 pinnae many pair, horizontal, often proliferous from the upper 

 surface, the largest eight inches long, and two inches broad, cut down 

 to a compressed winged rachis, into many lanceolate-deltoid pinnules 

 which are cut into slightly toothed linear oblong flaccid segments ; 

 texture herbaceous ; veins firm, pinnate ; sort oblong, large, often 

 filling the whole segment. Forst. Fl. Ins. Aust. Prod. 80. Hook. 

 Syn. Fit. p. 218. Bedd. F. B. I. t. 65, as bullatum (Wall.) 



Nepal, Sikkim, Bhotan, Khasya, 2,000-6,000 feet ; Penang. 

 (Also in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, New Caledonia, 

 Natal, and the East African Islands.) 



36. Asplenium tenuifolium. (Don.) Stipes tufted, 3-6 

 inches long, slender, glabrous, or with a few hairs ; fronds green, 

 thinly herbaceous, up to 20 inches long, lanceolate, 3-4 pinnate ; 

 pinna? many pair, the lower ones 3 inches long by f inch 

 b'oad, lower pinnule subdeltoid, cut down to a narrowly winged 

 rachis into spathulate segments, quarter inch or less broad, sharply 

 cut on the outer edge ; veins solitary; sori 1-2 to a segment. Don. 

 Fr. Fl. Nep. 8. Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 220. Bedd. F. S. I. t. 130. 



South India, higher ranges of the Nilgiris, Pulneys, and 

 Ammallays; Ceylon at Newera Elya ; Himalayas, Nepal to Bhotan 

 5,000-9,000 feet; Khasya, 4,000-5,500 feet; Birma. 



***** Ultimate division of the frond, narrow, linear ; sori 

 linear or linear-oblong, marginal or submarginal. Darea of authors. 



37. Asplenium ruivefolium. {Kunze.) Stipes tufted, 6-9 

 inches long, compressed, greenish, glabrous; fronds 6-15 inches 

 long, narrowly oblong, glabrous, bipinnate, the rachis often pro- 

 longed, naked, and rooting at the apex; pinnae 12-20 pair, the 



^t sub-deltoid, two inches or more long, cut down to the rachis 

 to many erect-patent distant pinnules on each side, the lowest on 



