TAB. XXXVIII. 



Asplenium (Euasplenium) ferulaceum, Moore. 



Caudice ? stipite 14 uncias longo robusto pallide fusco hinc 

 sulcato, fronde sesquipedalj supradecomposita (4-5-pinnata) 

 kete viridi membranacea deltoideo-ovata acuminata, pinnis 

 primariis numerosis subdistantibus inferioribus 6-8 uncias 

 longis petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis, secundariis 3 uncias 

 longis, ultimis brevibus lineam longis lineari-subspathulatis 

 mono-rarius disoris, venis costasformibus, soris parvis dare- 

 oideis, involucris viridescentibus submembranaceis, rachibus 

 primariis secundariisque teretibus stramineis nitidis ultimis 

 augustissimis compressis glabris. 



Asplenium ferulaceum, Hook Sp Fil. 3. p. 216. Moore. Mss. 

 in Herb. Nostr. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 130. (name only, no 

 character or description.) 



Hab. New Grenada, Hartweg. n. 1519. Quito, Jameson, in 

 Herb. Nostr. 



A very distinct and elegant, and hitherto undescribed 

 species, of the Z>araz-group, remarkable for the very com- 

 pound, or rather decompound, finely cut pinnse, and the 

 terete primary and secondary rachises, which are stramineous 

 and glossy. 



Fig. 1. Stipes and base of a lower primary pinna, f. 2. A 

 superior primary pinna ; nat. size. f. 3. Pinnule with sori : 

 magnified. 



Cent. 2. t. 3y. 



