TAB. XXXIV. 



AsPLENIUM (El'ASPLENIDM) RUTACEUM, Mett. 



Caudice obliquo radicante, stipitibus ctespitosis brevissimis 

 semiunciam ad duas unciaslongis castaneis, frondibus 10-12 

 uncias loDgis membranaceis atro-viridibus lato-lanceolatis 

 basi sensirn attenuatis apice in caudam longam filiformem 

 ad extremitatem radicantem extensis bi-tripinnatis, pinnis 

 primariis horizontalibus unciam sesquiunciam longis numer- 

 osis approximatis (infimis nanis) e basi latiuscula oblongis 

 obtusis, secundariis 2 lineas longis omnibus petiolatis pin- 

 natis, pinnulis 2-3 obovato-spathulatis subacutis integris 

 v. bilobis, pinnulis infimis magis compositis summis integris 

 vel bilobis minimis remotis, venis in quoque lobo indivisis 

 longe infra apicem terminantibus apice clavatis, soris brevi- 

 bus ovalibus in disco sitis, involucris membranaceis pallidis. 



Asplenium rutaceum, Met/en. Asplen. p. 129. t. 5. f. 32. 33. 

 Moore. Ind. Fil. j>. 162. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 203. Asnidium, 

 mild. Sp. PI. 5. p. 266. Athyrium, Pr.— Lonchitis in 

 auriculas subrotundas divisa. Plum. Fil. p. 44. t. 57. 



Hab. St. Domingo, Plumier ; Columbia, Tovar, Moritz, n. 

 402; New Grenada, Ocana, Schlim n. 624; and Sierra 

 Nevada, elev. 6000 feet ; Venezuela, Fendler, n. 123; on 

 trunks of trees, forests of Archedona, Andes of Quito, 

 Jameson, n. 788. 



An elegant species, lately well described by Mettenius, 

 previously very incorrectly understood, and chiefly in conse- 

 quence of Plumier's rather exaggerated figure above quoted, 

 from which Willdenow's character appears to have been 

 drawn up : and hence too he was led into the error of 

 believing it to be an Aspidium. 



Fertile plant; nat. size. Fiys. 1 §• 2. Pinnules with sori ; 

 magnified. 



C-KNT. 2. 



