﻿46^ 55. ASPLENIUM. S§ 5. EU-ASPLEMUM, 



in the size of the fronds and the length of the pinnae. The plant found and 

 determined by Raciborski is prohlaby a young form of the latter. 

 Java, Moluccas. 



(ilb) A., militare, Copel., Philipp. Journ., I, Suppl., 254. 



Rhizome creeping, densely clothed with lanceolate, murino-fuligineous, 

 acuminate scales. Stipes 40 — 50 c.M. long, castaneous, glossy and glabrescent 

 like the rachis. Fronds 60 — 100 c.M. long, 25 — 50 c.M. broad. Pinnae short- 

 stalked, remote, 15 — 18 c.M. long, 2— S'/i c.M. broad, the base obliquely 

 cuneate, or truncate on the upper side, the edge serrate, 2-serrale towards the 

 caudate apex; lower pinnae hardly shorter. Texture chartaceous; surfaces 

 naked, the upper rather fuligineous, the lower olive-green; veins forked, spread- 

 ing, very oblique at the base. Sori curved, costal. 



Mindanao. 



* (48) A. pellueiduin, Xra*»., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 212; A.hirlum, 

 Klf., Christ, Farnkr. d. Erde, 196; Bedd., Ferns Br.I , II, tab. CXCIV; A. ap- 

 proximatum, BL, Enum., 179; — var. obtusum, Christ, Ann. Btz., XX, 111, 

 — var. repressum, Copel., Polypod. Philipp., 83. 



Rhizome erect or suberect, densely clothed with dark-brown, linear, acu- 

 minate scales. Stipes varying from short to 10 c.M. long, strong, erect, brownish, 

 deciduously scaly, the scales + fibiillose. Fronds 20 — 100 c.M. long, 4 — 20 

 c.M. broad, lanceolate. Pinnae numerous, sessile, spreading, acute or acuminate, 

 the edge serrate or toothed, the teeth sometimes toothed again, the upper base 

 truncate, auricled, the lower cuneate; lower pinnae reduced, suborbicular 

 or subcordate. Texture coriaceous; rachis fibrillose or chafly, the scales dense, 

 dark-coloured, fimbriate, at length deciduous; veins oblique, inconspicuous. 

 Sori short, in regular rows, oblique, occupying the lower half of the veins. 



War. obtuisuiii: Pinnae short, obtuse. 



War. represjiliin; fronds under 20 c M. long, almost sessile: pinnae 

 obtuse. 



Malaya; Polynesia, Madagascar, Mascarenes, Seychelles. 



(49) A., dimicliatuiii, ««?., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil. 209; ? A. Zamiae- 

 folium, Willd., Kze, Farng., I, tab. XLVIII. 



Stipes tufted, 772 — 30 c.M. long, blackish, slightly paleaceous, firm, erect. 

 Fronds 15 — 45 c.M. long, 8 — 15 c.M. broad, with 6 — 9 opposite pairs of 

 pinnae. Pinnae + 2 — 272 c.M. broad, the point acuminate, especially the 



