TAB. XL VI. 



ASPLENIUM (EuDlPLAZIUSl) VESTITUM, Hook. 



Caudice ? stipitibus robustis paleaceis squamosis, squamis in- 

 fimis maximis ovatis acuminatis atro-fuscis nitidis denticu- 

 latisj frondibus amplis submembranaceis fusco-viridibus 

 sesquipedalibus ovato-lanceolatis pinnato-pinnatifidis apice 

 pinna tifidis, v. bi-tripedalibus latissime ovatis bipinnatis, 

 pinnis omnibus patentissimis oblongis petiolatis, primariis 

 distantibus semi-pedalibus ad spithamaeam acutis apice 

 pinnatifidis, pinnulis elliptico-oblongis 2 uncias longis fere 

 unciam latis scepe obtusissirnis basi truncatis lobato-pinna- 

 tifidis superioribus subintegris serratisque, lobis obtusis vel 

 subangulatis, venis pinnato-fasciculatis, soris linearibus 

 copiosis infimis prsecipue diplazioideis, rachibus villoso- 

 squamulosis. 



Asplenium vestitum. Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 263. 



Diplazium vestitum. Pr. Ejrimel. Bot. p. 87. 



D. extensum. J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. 3. p. 407, in part, 

 (name only.) 



Hab. Isle of Samar, Philippines, Cuming, n. 336. 



Our younger specimens, as they appear to be (yet bearing 

 copious sori), are simply pinnated, the larger and older ones 

 bipinnate, with large very distant primary pinna?. 



Fig. 1. Stipes, f. 2. Portion of a fertile frond; nat. size. 

 f. 3. Portion of a fertile pinna, with sori. f. 4. Scale from 

 the base of the stipes : magnified. 



Cent. 2, r. -Hi. 



