S5. ASPLENIUM. § 3. EH-ASPlENinm. 469 



toothed, the upper base broadly cuneate, truncate, cordate or broadly rounded, 

 the lower cuneate in a curve. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis stout, clothed 

 with reddish to blackish, woolly fibres ; veins oblique, commonly once forked. 

 Sori nearly parallel and close to the midrib, e.vcept those on the lobes which 

 are more spreading. — Near A. caudatum, Fmst. 

 Malaya. 



* (67) A. (enuifoliuan, J»o«., Hk. Bk., Syn. Fil., 220; Hk., S"" 

 Cent, of Ferns, tab. XXIX; Bedd. Perns S.I., tab. CXXX. 



Stipes tufted, 7 — 15 c.M. long, slender, naked, slightly ebeneous. Fronds 

 15 — 30 c.M. long, 7 — 13 c.M. broad, oblong-lanceolate, with numerous pinnae 

 on each side, the lower ones 5 — 7 c.M. long, + 2 c.M. broad. Lower pinnu- 

 lae (Subdeltoid,Tcut down to a narrowly winged rachis into^atbulale'segments 

 + 3 m.M. broad, sharply incised on the outer edge. Rachis green, naked, 

 slender; veins solitary. Sori 1 — 2 to each segment. 



Malacca; Br. India. 



* (68a) A. <$tereophylluiii, ir»e, Bot. Zeit., d848, 17o;Mett. 

 Farng., VI, Aspl., 158. jSee Supplement 1. 



Stipes 7 — 1 5 c.M. long, paleaceo-pilose, fusco-paleaceous at the base, after- 

 wards naked. Fronds 12—30 c.M. long, 5 — 7 c.M. broad, lanceolate-deltoid, 

 acuminate. Pinnae many, short-stalked, trapezio-oblong, mostly obtuse, ap- 

 proximate, subspreading, the lowest ± the largest, the upper base truncate, 

 the lower subdimidiate-cuneate. Pinnulae rather distant, cuneale or spathulate- 

 linear, the apex incised or toothed, obtuse, the lowest ± 3-partite, spreading, 

 the higher ones erecto-patent, decurrent, confluent. Texture rigidly coriace- 

 ous; surfaces sparingly paleaceo-pilose; rachis subflexuose, inconspicuously 

 marginate, opaque. 



Java, Sumatra. 



(686) j%.. E^lmeri, Christ, Philipp. Joiirn., II, 164. 



Rhizome short, crowned with castaneous, subulate scales. Stipes fascicu- 

 late, 7 — 12 c.M. long, rather deep-l)lack-brown and clothed with spreading, 

 subulate, brown scales like the rachis. Fronds oblong, acuminate, narrowed 

 at the base, + 20 c.M. long, 6 — 8 c.M. broad, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnati- 

 fid. Pinnae short-stalked, horizontal, + 16 — 20 on each side, subremote, 

 ovate-elongate, acuminate, the apex coarsely toothed, lanceolate, the rachis 

 short-winged above. Pinnulae few, 2 — 3 on each side, short-stalked, ovale- 



