TAB. LXXV. 



ASPLENIUM (ElJASPLENIUM) BARTEEI, Hook. 



Parvuru, caudice subnullo, radicibus copiosissimis csespitosis, 

 stipitibus aggregati3 gracilibus 1-2 uncialibus nigro-brun- 

 neis, frondibus subquadriuncialibus membranaceis atro- 

 viridibus pinnatis, pinnis 30-35 semiunciam longia horizon- 

 talibus approximatis nunc omnibus oppositis sessilibus 

 oblongis acutis basi oblique truncatis serratis superne 

 auriculatis, terminali elongata gracili remote pinnatifida 

 ssepe prolifera, venia remotiusculis, soris oblongis, racbi 

 intense fusca compresso-alata. 



Hab. Tropical Western Africa ; Aboh, on Trees, Barter, in 

 BaiMe's Niger Exped. n. 1454. 



Tbis pretty Asplenium may "rank near A. pteropus, Kaulf., 

 and Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 122, t. 177; but it is very different 

 from that and every other of the Genus with which I am 

 acquainted. Instead of tapering gradually to an acuminated 

 apex, the frond is, as it were, suddenly truncated and a ter- 

 minal pinna set on of a different shape from the lateral ones, 

 and very generally proliferous. 



Tab. LXXV. Asplenium Barteri, Hook, ; natural size. 

 Fig. 1. Fertile pinna; magnified; and/. 2. Sori, more highly 

 magnified. 



Ciki. 2, 1. 75. 



