TAB. III. 



Asplenium (Euassplenitjm) lugubbe, Hook. 



Glabrum, colore toto nigricante, caudice repente crass- 

 iusculo radiculoso, frondibus csespitosis brevi - stipitatis 

 spithamans ad pedalem lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis 

 pinnatis apicem versus pinnatifidis, pinnis sessilibus hori- 

 zontaliter patentibus segmentisque lanceolato-falcatis vix 

 acuminatis insequaliter subduplicato-serratis membranaceis 

 rigidis subopacis, venia simplicibus v. furcatis apicibus 

 intra marginem clavatis, eoris versus apicem pinnarum vel 

 segmentorum, involucris angustis nigris, stipitibus rachi- 

 busque villis paleaceis aterrimis patentibus crinitis. 



Hab. Kina Ballu, Borneo, Hugh Low,junr. Esq. 



A very peculiar looking Asplenium, entirely of a black 

 colour in its dried state, having the short stipes and rachis 

 clothed with patent, long-spreading, intensely black, palea- 

 ceous flexuose hairs, or scales. The appearance of the entire 

 plant is that of having grown in water, and the pinna? and 

 segments are more or less erose, and jagged at the margin, 

 and the substance is formed of closely compacted cells, in the 

 younger and subpellucid specimens exhibiting a minutely 

 reticulated appearance, when held between the eye and the 

 light. 



Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna to show the venation. /. 2. Por- 

 tion of a fertile pinna. /. 3. Scale from the rachis : — mag- 

 nified. 



Ckht. 2. t. 3. 



