Pirate 18. 
ASPIDIUM (Cyrromrum) carvormprum, Wail. 
Caryota-leaved Shield-Fern. 
ASPIDIUM (Cyrromium) caryotideum ; caudex short, thick, erect, densely palea- 
ceous, with large, erect scales, as are the bases of the erect, robust, ceespi- 
tose stipites, which are ten to twelve inches long; fronds half a foot to 
two feet long, oblong, subcoriaceo-carnose, of a palish yellow, opaque, yel- 
lowish-green, pinnated ; pinne three to four, or even six inches long, ovate, 
much acuminated (sometimes repando-lobate), falcate, sharply serrated, su- 
perior base much broader than the inferior, undivided, or more generally 
with a long, sharp, acuminated appendage or ear, the lowest pair and _ter- 
minal pinna often with one on each side; veins anastomosing, primary ones 
pinnate, flexuose, costal areoles with a solitary, free, soriferous veinlet, supe- 
rior ones with two to three clavate veinlets; sori very copious; involucre 
orbicular, peltate, entire or laciniated at the margin, rachis and rather short 
petioles setoso-paleaceous. 
Aspipium caryotideum. Wall. Cat.n.376. Hook. and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 69. Kze. 
an Linnea, 0. 24. p. 278. Metten. Aspid. p. 32. 
CyrvTomium caryotideum. Pr, Tent. Plerid. p. 86. 
ASPIDIUM anomophyllum. Zenk. Pl. Nilgh. t. 1 (identical with our plant). 
Metten. Aspid. p. 34, 
Cyrromium falcatum. Raws. and Pappe, Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 15 (not Aspid. 
faleatum, Thund.). 
Has. India, chiefly in mountain regions: Nepal, Wallich ; Kumaon, Grifith, 
Strachey and Winterbottom (at Dwali, elev. 8200 feet), 7. Thomson ; Bootan, 
Griffith, Booth; Sikkim-Himalaya, Hook. fil. and Thomson ; above Simla, 
Colonel Bates ; Nilghiri, Dr. Wight, n. 108, Sir F. Adam, Zenker, Hohenacker 
in Pl. Nilgh. n. 912 and 918, named Aspid. anomophyllum, Zenk., var. 
macropteron (912), and var. micropterum, Kze. (n. 913), M‘Ivor. South 
Africa: Natal, Major Garden ; forests of British Caffraria, Captain Espinasse, 
1856 (Rawson and Pappe).—Cultivated in the Fernery at Kew. 
We have figured the better-known, because longer cultivated 
in England, and hardy and closely allied Aspidium falcatum, Th., 
at Tab. xcii. of our ‘ Filices Exotica.’ To see the two in a living 
state, the differences are very striking, chiefly, however, arising 
from the deep vivid-green of falcatum, so glossy on the upper 
surface as to appear varnished there, whereas caryotidewm has 
pale-green foliage, dull on the surface, not in the slightest degree 
polished. In the dried state the colour and surface present no 
difference to the eye. In this condition the chief distinctions are 
to be found in the entire edge (never serrated) of falcatwm, to- 
APRIL Ist, 1861. 
