468 55. ASPLENinjr. § 3. eu-asplenium. 



« (64) A. laciniatuui, l»oit., Hk. Bk., Syn. FiL, 211; Hk., Spec. 

 Fil., Ill, tab. CC, A.; Bedd., Ferns S.I., tab. CXLV. 



Rhizome thick, ascending, the scales dense, blackish, subulate, rigid. 

 Stipes tufted or subtufted, 10 — 20 c.M. long, grey or brown, partially and 

 deciduously scaly. Fronds 13—30 c.M. long, 2*4 — T'/j c.M. broad; main 

 rachis deciduously scaly. Pinnae ± 12 — 20 on each side, spreading, stalked, + 

 1 — 2 c.M. broad, oblong, narrowed towards the apex, cut down often quite to the 

 costa in the lower part, the upper base truncate, the lower narrowly cuneate. 

 Lobes erecto-patent, rhomboidal-oblong or cuneate, 2 — 3-fid, the superior basal 

 one (auricle) the largest, broad-flabeliiform. Texture + coriacous; veins 

 oblique, those of the lower lobes flabellate. Sori few, the higher ones oblique, 

 the lower radiating in the auricle, not reaching either the midrib or the edge. 



Celebes; Ceylon, North India, Japan. 



» (6B) A. Hagenii, ». A. ». n.. Bull. D6p. Agr. I.N., i908, XVIII, 14. 



Rhizome, stipes and fronds beneath densely scaly when young ; the scales 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, caducous, the base dilated, the edge finely and 

 shortly toothed, the point very fine, capUlary, those of the rhizome and base 

 of the stipes dark-brown, erecto-patent, the others smaller, spreading, cris- 

 ped, those of the under surface of the fronds the finest, pale-brown. Stipes 

 + 12 c.M. long, erect, firm, dark-brown. Fronds + 15 c.M. long or longer, 

 lanceolate-obloug, acuminate. Pinnae subrhomboidal, erecto-patent or nearly 

 horizontal, the lowest mostly the largest, 4 — 6 c.M. long, I'/i — 2 c.M. broad, 

 blunt or acute to acuminate, stalked, unequal-sided, deeply pinna lifid or pinnate 

 at the base. Segments 3 — 4 on each side, oblong or cuneate, erecto-patent, 

 with the outer edge finely toothed, the lower ones + flabellale-cuneate, wilh the 

 outer edge flabellato-5-fid and finely toothed. Texture coriaceous; veins indis- 

 tinct. Higher sori subparallel to the costa, the lower + parallel to the 

 edges of the segments on which they are placed; indusium membranaceous. 



Sumatra (Hagen). 



» (66) A. horridaiu, JSrif., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 211; Hk., Spec. 

 Fil., Ill, tab. CXGIII; A.caudalum, Forsf.,var. horridum, Cbrist.,Yil. Saras.,!, lo. 



Stipes strong, erect, brownish, fibrillose. Fronds 60 — 90 c.M. long, 12—50 

 c.M. broad, with numerous (20 — 50) spreading to erecto-patent pinnae on each 

 side. Pinnae ± 1^ — 2 c.M. broad at the base, narrowed gradually to an acuminate 

 toothed point, cut down throughout more than halfway to the costa into + 

 uniform, broad lobe.s, the lobes with the outher edge more or less crenate or 



