Aaplenium.] pilices. 451 



2. A, lanceum, Thunb. ; Hook. Spec. Ml. iii. 235. Ehizome slender, 

 creeping, with subulate scales. Fronds simple, entii-e or slightly crenate, 

 lanceolate, 4 to 9 in. long, and ^ to 1 in. broad, narrowed into a stipes of 2 

 to 4 in. Veins nearly transverse, mostly twice forked, and not very close. 

 Sori along their upper or both sides, linear, but usually commencing at some 

 distance frqm the midi-ib, and not reaching the margin. — A. subsinuaium, 

 Hook, and Grev. Ic. Pil. t. 27. 



Hongkong, Marland, Lorrain, Hance, Seemann. In Ceylon, the Himalaya, China, and 

 Japan. 



3. A. davallioides. Hook. Spec. Fil. iii. 212 ; Cent. Ferns, ii. f. 40.— 

 Fronds tufted, 6 to 8 in. high, including a stipes of 2 to 3 in., twice or thrice 

 pinnate at the base, passing upwards into simply pinnate ends, the rhacliis 

 flat and almost vnnged ; the segments ouneate at the base, entire or divided 

 into entire oblong divaricate almost recurved lobes, 1 to If lines long. Each 

 lobe bears a single sorus occupying almost the whole of its under surface. 



Hongkong, Dill. On the adjoining continent, in Xoochop and Japan. 



4. A. cuneatum, Lam.; Hook. Spec. Fil. iii. 168. Ehizome thick, 

 shortly creeping, with subulate scales. Fronds 1 to near 2 ft. high, including 

 a rather long stipes, twice or thrice pinnate. Segments rigid, cuneate, obo- 

 vate, or the end ones lanceolate, 3 to 6 lines long, more or less toothed or 

 lobed at the top, narrowed at the base, and mostly petiolulate. Sori 2 to 5 

 on each lobe or segment, linear, very oblique, along the upper or inner side 

 of the vein (that next the centre of the lobe or segment). — A. laserpitiifolium. 

 Lam. ; Hook. Spec. Fil. iii. 171, t. 203. 



In the Happy Valley, Urquhart ; also Hance and Wright. Spread over the tropical and 

 suhtropical regions of the New and the Old World; extends northward to Bonin and 

 Cbusan. 



5. A. macrophyllum, Sw.; Hook. Spec. Fil.m.lhi,. Ehizome thick, 

 shortly creeping. Fronds tufted, 8 in. to 1^ ft. high, simply pinnate. Pinuse 

 usually 11 to 21, obliquely falcateJanceolate, acuminate, irregularly sinuate, 

 cuneate at the base, and shortly petiolulate, 2 to 3 in. long in the Hongkong 

 specimens, but much longer in some others ; the terminal larger pinna often 

 shortly lobed at the base. Sori linear, very obKque, extending from near the 

 midrib almost to the mai-gin, along the upper or inner side of the veins, or 

 here and there in the lower part of the pinna, on the outer or lower side.— 

 A. oxyphyllum, J. Sm. ; Hook, in Kew Joum. Bot. ix. 342. 



Hongkong, ^ownW, Wright.- In the Mauritius, Ceylon, the Malayan Peninsula, the 

 Archipelago, and Pacific islands, extending northward to Assam, S. Chma, and bonm. 



6. A. fraxinifolium, TTall. ; Hook. Spec. Fil. iii. t. 40 ; Cent. Ferns, 

 ii. i!. 19. Ehizome short and thick. Fronds 1 to 2 ft. high, simply pinnate 

 PinuK 3 to 11, oblong-laneeolate, acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long, or the tenmnal 

 one longer, entire or very sHghtly serrulate, cuneate or very rarely almost 

 rounded at the base, on a shori; petiolule. Veins slender once or twice 

 forked, almost always free (not anastomosing). Sori linear, along one or botn 

 sides of every second or third vein, sometimes extending almost trom tne 

 midrib to the margin, but often much shorter.— j5ipto"«)« elegans. Hook, ra 

 Kew Joum. Bot. ix. 343. ^ ^ ^ 



