TAB. XLV. 



Asplenium (Eudiplazium) Thwaitesii, A. Braun. 



Caudice longo repente atro radicante, stipitibus sparsis 4 

 uncias ad spithamaaam longis rachique pilis crispatis squam- 

 isque lanceolatis membranaceis vestitis,frondibus spithamaiis 

 ad pedalem ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis membranaceis 

 pinnatis apice pinnatifidis, pinnis 1^-3 uncias longis ap- 

 proximates sessilibus horizontalibus obtusis rectis profunde 

 fere ad rachin pinnatifidis, lobis brevi-oblongis obtusis 

 apice dentatis, venis pinnatis simplicibus v. furcatis, soris 

 singulo lobo in seriebus duabus parvis lineari-oblongis, in- 

 volucris pallide fuscis membranaceis convexis suberosis 

 nunc diplazioideis, costis et venis supra subglanduloso- 

 sparseque pilosis. 



Asplenium Thwaitesii, A. Braun, Ind. Hort. Berol. 1857 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 183. Hook. Sp. Fit 3. p. 250. 



Hab. Ceylon, Gardner, n. 1343, Thwaites, 



A remarkable and well defined species in its long, creeping, 

 subterranean, blackened caudex, and the densely tomentose 

 and peleaceous stipites and main rachises. 



Fertile frond; nut. size. Fig. 1. 2. 3. Portions of pinnae 

 with sori : magnified. 



CjiKT. 1. 



