TAB. LXXX. 



Asplenitjm (Euasplenitjm) emaeginatum, Beauv. 



Caudice brevi crasso erecto dense fibroso-radicoso, stlpitibus 

 aggregatis rachique subherbaceis, fronde ampla pedali ad 

 sesquipedalem submembranacea pinnata la?te-viridi, pinnis 

 4-5-pollicaribus sesquiunciam et ultra latis brevi-petiolatis 

 oblongis obtusis dentato-serratis basi oblique cuneatis apice 

 profunde acute emarginatis sinu gemmifera, terminali ma- 

 jore longe petiolata, venis patentibus copiosis uni-bifurcatis, 

 soris nuruerosis approximatis costam non ad marginem ap- 

 proximatis, involucris angustissimis albidis. 



Asplenium emarginatum, Beauv. Fl. cPOware et de Benin, 2, 

 p. 6, t. 61. Metten. Asplen. p. 94, Hook. Sp. Fit 3, p. 

 101 (in part). 



Hab. Tropical Western Africa, Mountains of Isle du Prince, 

 Bight of Benin, Palisot de Beauvois ; Onitoba, Barter, in 

 Bailde's Niger Expedition, n. 1735. Fernando Po, on 

 mountains 1000 feet of elev. Gustav Mann, n. 343. 



I am led to believe, in consequence of more perfect speci- 

 mens I have lately received of Beauvois' Asplenium emargi- 

 natum, that Dr. Curror's specimens alluded to in my habitats 

 for that plant in the Species Filicum, are different from M. 

 de Beauvois', and I gladly correct my error, by publishing at 

 our Tab. LXIX. of this volume, Dr. Curror's plant under 

 the name of A. longicauda, while I here represent what I 

 believe to be quite different, and the true plant of the author 

 of the " Flora d'Oware et de Benin." It will be at once 

 seen that the present plant entirely wants the suddenly 

 accuminated points to the apices of the former species, and 

 equally the very long proliferous terminal pinna : here all 

 the pinna? are obtuse and emarginate. The texture of the 

 frond is more membranaceous, of a brighter green, and the 

 veins are more compact, the sori much closer, and longer and 

 narrower. 



Tab. LXXX. Frond of Asplenium emarginatum, Beauv.; 

 natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna, with sori; 

 magnified, f. 2. Two lateral pinna?, fertile ; natural size. 



Ceht. 2. t. 80. 



