8S. ASPLENIUM. § 3. EU-ASPLENIUM. 471 



War. siibaffliie: Ultimate segments obovate, nearly flabellate, 2 X 

 IS large. 



Wav. oceanieiiut: Texture firmly coriaceous; rachis often dark- 

 )rown or black. 



War. tripinnatum: Fronds S-pinaatifid; segments short, ovate- 

 ;uneate. 



Pantropical; — var. subaffine: Celebes; — var. oceanicum: Malaya; — 

 rar. tripinnatum: Mindanao. 



* (71) A. bulbiferuui, Fofst., Hk. Bk., Syn. Pil., 218; A.bulla- 

 um. Wall., Bedd., • Perns Br.L, I, tab. LXV; Hk., Icon. PL, V, tab. 



:dxxiii. 



Stipes tufted, 15—30 c.M. long, firm, erect, greyish, scaly at the base, 

 f'ronds 30 — 60 c.M. long, 20—30 c.M. broad, oblong-deltoid, with many pinnae 

 in each side, erect or pendulous. Pinnae horizontal (erecto-patent after Bed- 

 lome's drawing), the largest 10 — 20 c.M. long, 3'/2 — 5 c.M. broad, the apex 

 icuminate, tootlied or subpinnatifid, the rest cut down to a crompressed, winged 

 achis into many lanceolate-deltoid, unequal-sided pinnulae, which are again 

 lit down into oblong or linear-oblong segments. Segments '/j — 1 Vs ^•^- '*"'S» 

 l*/2 — 5 m.M. broad, slightly toothed. Texture herbaceous, slightly fleshy; sur- 

 aces naked, the upper side not rarely copiously proliferous; veins fine, pinnate 

 n the tertiary segments, (the apices thickened and pellucid in the controlled 

 pecimens). Sori oblong, at length often filling the whole breadth of the 

 egments. 



Penang; Br. India, Australia, New Zealand. 



* (72) A. netidum, «t»., Rac, Flor. Btz., I, 219; Bedd., Ferns S.I., 

 ab. GXLVIII, CXLIX; A. laserpiliifoliam, Bedd, 1. c, tab. CCXXV. 



Rhizome suberect, i densely clothed with lanceolate, black, glossy scales, 

 tipes 15 — 30 c.M. lorij, firm, erect, greyish to brownish or black, naked, 

 'ronds commonly 6£i — 90 c.M. long, 15 — 30 c.M. broad, with numerous lan- 

 eolate to delloid, acuminate pinnae on each side. Pinnae + erecto-patent, 

 lie lowest 15—25 c.M. long, 5 — 8 c.M. broad, cut down to the rachis into 

 umerous stalked, subdeltoid or subrhomboidal pinnulae, which are again cut 

 own into flabellate to cuneate segments, which are inciso-serrate round the 

 liter edge or pinnatifid again. Texture subcoriaceous ; rachis firm, naked; 

 Bins channelled, conspicuous. Sori short, radiant. 



Malaya; North. India. 



