470 55. ASBLENinM. § 3. eh-asplenium. 



ciineale, obtuse, coarsely toothed, '1 — 3 c.M long, + I'/j c.M. broad, the 

 teeth ± 8 m.VI. long, + 5 m.M. broad, the lowest anterior lobe acute, 

 approximate to the rachis. Texture herbaceous; colour black-green; vehis 

 flabellalo-furcale. Sori 2—3 to a segment, lanceolate, + 4 m.M. broad; indu- 

 sium narrow, greyish, persistent. 

 Luzon. 



♦ (69) A. praemoi'JSUin, Ste., Christ, Parnkr. d. Erde, 204; A. 

 furcatvm, Thb., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 218; Bedd., Perns S.I., tab. CXLIV; — var. 

 alpestre, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 118; — var. angustissimum, Christ. 



Rhizome wide-creeping, densely clothed with polished, lanceolate, brown 

 scales. Stipes 8 — 25 c.M. apart, 10 — 20 c.M. long, firm, erect, clothed with 

 deciduous, woolly hairs. Pronds 13 — 45 c.3I. long, 7 — 13 c.M. broad, linear- 

 lanceolate, with 12-20 pinnae on each side. Pinnae lanceolate-deltoid, short- 

 stalked, 4 — 8 c.M. long, 2—272 c.M. broad, acute, cut down throughout nearly 

 or quite to the costa into sessile segments. Segments linear- or oblong-cuneate, 

 the outer edge rounded and sharply serrate; lower segments often deeply 

 incised. Texture coriaceous; rachis firm, more or less fibrillose like the stipe; 

 veins deep-channelled, ± flabellate. 



\'stv. alpestre: Stipes and fronds + 12 c.M. long. Ultimate segments 

 ± ovate, deeply incised, the outer edge slightly crenate-dentate. Scales of the 

 rhizome very acuminate. 



War. an^iistissiiMUin: Fronds linear-lanceolate; pinnae erect, the 

 lobes with the apices long-acuminate. 



Tropical and subtropical. 



• (70) A. ciineatnni, I.am., Rac , Plor. Btz., I, 219; — var. 

 subaffine, Christ, Ann. Btz., XV, 117; — var. oceanicum, Christ, 1. c; — 

 var. tripinnatum, Christ, Philipp. Journ., II, 163. 



Rhizome suberect, clothed with brown, lanceolate scales. Stipes tufted, 

 12—30 c.M. long, scaly at the base. Pronds 15—100 c.M. long, + 10—23 

 c.M. broad or broader, deltoid-lanceolate, with numerous spreading pinnae on 

 each side. Lower pinnae ^^j^—i c.M. or more broad, lanceolate-deltoid, cut 

 down to the rachis into distinct, oblong-cuneate, more or less rounded pinnulae 

 with the outer edge inciso-dentale and the lower part entire or lobed or cut 

 down nearly or quite to the costa. Texture thinly coriaceous; rachis firm, 

 greyish to brownish, nearly naked; veins Gnc, visible above. Sori subflahellate, 

 linear. 



