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TRIBE VIII.— ASPLENIEiE. 

 r. Asplenium ensiforme. Mussoorie. (Hope.) 



2 a. Asplenium Mactieri. (Bedd.) Caudex small, erect, 

 scaly : scales dark brown, with a paler margin, lanceolate from a 

 broad base, finely acuminate ; stipes 6-9 inches long, pale yellow, 

 whitish at the base ; fronds 6-9 inches long, i|- inches broad, 

 gradually narrowed below, gradually or finely acuminated at the 

 apex, the margin crenate or serrate, texture subcoriaceous ; veins 

 distinct, usually once forked from near the base, occasionally 

 again forked towards the apex, not quite reaching the margin ; 

 sori reaching from the midrib two-thirds towards the margin ; 

 indusium broad and very prominent. Jour. Bot. 1888, 3. 



Penang. (Macticr.) 1 Allied to Griffithianum, but with a long 

 slender stipe, rather more coriaceous and paler in colour. 



2B. Asplenium Scortechinii. (Bedd.) Stipes tufted, short, 

 erect ; fronds linear-lanceolate, 2-2^ feet long by about 1 inch 

 broad, gradually attenuated below into the stipe and at the apex 

 into a fine long point, the margin entire or sub-entire, texture 

 coriaceous, glabrous, or with a few scales on the lower surface ; 

 veins rather distant, once forked from below the middle ; sori 

 exactly at right angles to the midrib, reaching two-thirds of 

 the way to the edge. Jour, of Bot. 1887, 322. 



Perak, 3,000-4,000 feet alt. Caulfield's Hill. (Day, Scor- 

 tcchini. King, No. 2,149.) Near Griffithianum, but fronds much 

 longer with a much finer point, and the indusium quite square 

 to the rachis. 



2B. Asplenium squamulatum. (Bl.) Stipes tufted, 2-4 

 inches long, strong, scaly below ; fronds lanceolate, 1 foot to 

 nearly 3 feet long, 2-4^ inches broad, broadest a little above the 

 centre, very gradually narrowed below, and more suddenly 

 upwards to an acuminate apex, and there sometimes proliferous ; 



