288 55. ASPLENItTM. § 3. EU-ASPLENIUM'. 



(28fl.) A. siiltesnai'gSisaiuiii, Rst., in Fed., Rep., V, 372; ■ — 

 var. logavensis, Rst., X, 326. 



Rhizome short-creeping, woody; scales dense, greyish, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, ciliate. Stipes approximate, + 25 cm. long, densely scaly 

 towards the base, upwards naked, castaneous. Fronds elongate-obovate, + 

 50 cm. long, 20 cm. broad, pinnate. Pinnae 7 — 9 on .a side below the 

 terminal one; terminal pinna unequal-sided at the base, narrowed into a 

 petiole Vj — 2 cm. long, much longer than the lateral ones, forked towards 

 the apex, with the fork branches often forked again ; lateral pinnae erecto- 

 patent, straight, linear-lanceolate or elongate-oval, entire or slightly 

 serrulate-crenate, the apex narrowed, the base cuneate, slightly produced 

 on the upper side; higher pinnae subsessile; central largest, to 20 cm. 

 long, + 2 '/a cm. or more broad, + 3 cm. apart; lowest to 9 cm. long, 

 + 1'/, cm. broad, petiolate, opposite, more remote. Texture thinly her- 

 baceous; surfaces naked; upper surface olive-green, lower paler; rachis 

 firm, brownish or castaneous, naked or nearly so, as are the costae; 

 veins oblique, parallel, simple or forked. Sori straight, + 3 mm. apart, 

 near the costae, occupying the lower '/, of the veins; indusium narrow. 



l^ai*. logavensis: Pinnae elongate-obovate, subentire; veins 

 more close. 



Neio Gianea. 



(29) A. remotuiii; Moore f — var. dareoides; A. multilineatuni, 

 Hk., var. dareoides, Rst., in Fed., Rep., X, 326. 



War. dareoides: Pinnae + 15 cm. long, 4 — 6 cm. broad, deeply 

 pinnatifid, pinnate at the base ; secondary segments to 3 cm. long, 1 — 1 '.'^ 

 cm. broad, obtuse, deeply pinnatifid; tertiary segments + 6 mm. long, 

 l'/2 Dim- broad, simple or 2-fid, or the lower pinnate again; ultimate 

 segments linear; sori linear, to 4 mm. long, dareoid. — Neio Guinea. 



(31) A. siimatraiisBBBt. Mie. 

 Also in Malacca. 



(32) A. vulcanicum, Bl. is construed as including 8 distinct forms: 

 A. vulcanicum Bl, A. cuspidifolium v. A. v. B. and A. Wightianum Hk. 



(32fl) A. vnleanicnati, Ml.; A. salignum, Bl, Enum., 175. 

 Fronds varying from simple to pinnate with few to numerous pinnae 



