TAB. LXVIIL 



ASPLEWIUM (EuASPLENIUM) INDTJEATtTM, Hook. 



Caudice repente radicante, stipitibus approximatis atris biun>- 

 cialibus squamosis, squamis subulato-setaceis atris basi 

 laciniatis, frondibus 4-6 uncialibus erectis lanceolatis rigido- 

 chartaceis olivaceo-viridibus pinnatis, pinnis subsessilibus 

 horizontalibus 4-5 lineaa longis 2J latis ssmi-ovatis basi 

 superne productis apice obtusis nunc leviter falcati3 cre- 

 nato-serratis, venis remotiusculis, soris obliquis biserialibus 

 linearibus, mvolucris rigide coriaceis fuscis, racbi atro-villosa. 



Hab. Interior of Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands. Milne, n. 131. 



This will perhaps rank near Aspl. hirtum of the Furcatum- 

 group of Euasplenium, of which it may possibly prove to be 

 a small variety. All the specimens however are very uniform, 

 and none exceeds in size those here represented. Some of 

 them have lost their lower pinnae, as if they separated at a 

 joint, as in so many species of Nephrolepis. This may be 

 an accidental circumstance, arising probably from a season of 

 unusual heat and drought ; so that I have not ventured to 

 indicate it in our figure. 



Tab. LXVIII. Plant of Asplenium induratum ; — natural 

 size. Fig. 1. Scale from the stipes, and/ 2. Pinna with 

 sori;— magnified, f. 3. Sorus, more magnified. 



ClHI, 1. I, «8, 



