55. ASPLENIUM. § 3. EU-ASPLENIOM. 297 



castaneous, naked, glossy. Fronds lanceolate, + 15 cm. long by 5 cm. 

 broad, acuminate, 2-pinnatifid, cuneate or truncate at the base. Pinnae 

 to 12 on a side, petiolate, ascending, trapezoid-lanceolate, pinnatifid in 

 the upper part, cut down nearly to the costa at the base, the lowest the 

 largest, + S'/j cm. long by I'/i cm. broad. Segments 2— 3-j ugate, cuneate 

 or linear, deeply toothed on the anterior side, the teeth hnear, acuminate. 

 Texture subcoriaceous ; colour blackish when dry; rachis, surfaces and 

 costae naked above, more or less scaly beneath; veins flabellate, subim- 

 mersed. Sori hnear. 

 Neio Guinea. 



(62d) A. variant, WFull., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 216; Hk. & Grev., 

 Ic. Fil., tab. CLXXII; — var. squamuligera, Rst., in Fed., Rep., XII, 528. 



Stipes tufted, 2V5— T'/i cm. long, slender, naked, greenish. Fronds 

 oblong-lanceolate, ± 10—15 cm. long, 2'/, cm. broad. Pinnae 8—12 on 

 a side, the lower remote, deltoid-oblong, blunt, toothed or incised and 

 toothed at the apex, ± 1 '/4 — 2 cm. long, + ^/^ — IV4 cm. broad, cut 

 down to the rachis into a few cuneate-flabellate pinnulae, the lowest of 

 which + 5 mm. across, toothed or sparingly lobed and toothed on the 

 outer edge with + 5 — 8 teeth. Texture herbaceous; rachis slender, 

 naked, green; veins 1 carried into each tooth. Sori copious, short, when 

 mature covering nearly the whole under surface of the pinnulae. 



Forma typica. — South Africa., Ceylon, China, Japan, Hawaii. 



Var. !Sf|«iamulig;ei*a : Stipe and rachis provided with spread- 

 ing, flexuose, linear-lanceolate, denticulate scales; pinnulae entire. — 

 Neio Guinea, 



(64a) See No. 62d. 



(65) A. Hagenii, v. A. v. B. 



Omit this species, it being a smaller form of A. stereophyllum Kze. 



(65a ?) A. perakense, Matt. 4- Christ, in Linn. Soc, Bot., 

 XXXIX, 214. 



Near A. praemorsum Sto. — Stipes + 21 cm. long, with a few 

 scattered, subulate scales; lower part ebeneous, upper part black-green;- 

 rachis either ebeneous or green. Fronds elongate, + 28 cm. long, 7 

 ,cm. broad, not narrowed at the base. Pinnae numerous, + S'/i cm. 



